October 2024

Getting the boss to deal with racist patients in our hospitals

October 30, 2024

NZNO delegate Ben Basevi was one of the nurses at Waitākere Hospital who recently led action to refuse care for a patient who had asked for white-only staff and made racist and sexual remarks over a six-week period. In this opinion piece, he explores the health and safety issues at the worker/consumer/visitor interface, and promotes the development of a policy and guidelines specifically designed to manage racism in public hospitals.

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October 2024

Primary health nurses ‘hōhā’ with three per cent offer

October 9, 2024

In te reo Māori, the word hōhā packs a lot of punch! It can mean many things but in this case it simply means ‘fed up!’ And it is the single word Tracey Morgan, spokesperson for the NZNO-Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa primary health-care bargaining team, is using to describe the latest negotiations with employers of about 3500 nurses throughout Aotearoa.

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June 2024

‘They have trampled on the mana of the future workforce’ — students in uproar over reports of hiring freeze

June 21, 2024

Confused, demoralised and “absolutely gutwrenched” — these are the feelings of nursing tauira (students) after hearing Te Whatu Ora may be freezing mid-year graduate recruitment a week out from hiring decisions.

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