IssueM Articles
March 2022
March 25, 2022
I apologise for the inconvenience that some are experiencing when trying to access the new platform. I truly hope that these issues may change for you in the near future.
Read more... NZNO professional and nursing services manager Mairi Lucas replies
June 2022
May 18, 2022
I am writing to you about the Kaitiaki news piece “Nursing magazine ditches century-old healthy-food title, finally becomes ‘guardian’” by co-editor Joel Maxwell [Feb 25, 2022]
Read more... Te reo Māori support not readily available in past times
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
Experienced nurses are quitting the profession in droves. What’s driving them out and what might keep them working in acute care?
June 2022
May 20, 2022
IT IS now more than six months since the End of Life Choice Act 2019 was implemented in New Zealand, with the latest government statistics indicating that 206 individuals have applied for an assisted death.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
Dr Seuss Enterprises has given the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses permission to use imagery from the famous book Oh The Places You’ll Go! and its te reo Māori translation Nōu te Ao, e Hika! to promote their symposium, after a nurse went straight to the top.
March 2023
 | `Kōrero I wish I could’ve had with the Well Child nurse’ |
December 20, 2022
Wāhi Kōrero is a unique research project where patients share their stories of care that did not meet their needs, via an online story-sharing platform. In the first part of this project, young mothers share challenging accounts of their experiences with Well Child nurses.
Read more... `Kōrero I wish I could’ve had with the Well Child nurse’
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
A nurse-led symposium to help Northland nurses working in primary care develop their skills working with long-term conditions such as diabetes and poor heart health last month had an “overwhelming” response.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
Health workers must feel safe to speak up when things go wrong, and raise concerns without fear of retribution, a patient safety expert says.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
Collective agreement (CA) negotiations between NZNO and Plunket were to take place on May 4 and 5, after members around the country endorsed a range of claims including a focus on Family Start and administration staff.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
NZNO is going into mediation with Hospice New Zealand, after members rejected its proposed multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) in April.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
Work to benchmark salaries for Family Planning (FP) nurses and other staff has been completed, primary health care industrial adviser Chris Wilson said.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
A proposed agreement between NZNO members and residential aged care provider CHT Healthcare Trust has been “overwhelmingly” ratified by 96 per cent of voting members, organiser Christina Couling said.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
Members working in aged care are under increasing pressure to do more with less, NZNO industrial adviser for aged care Lesley Harry says.
May 2021 vol 27 no 4
May 1, 2021
“Overwhelming solidarity” has seen a proposed collective agreement (CA) between St George’s Hospital in Christchurch and NZNO ratified by 88 per cent of voting members.
April 2021 vol 27 no 3
April 14, 2021
District Health Boards say they are “disappointed” that their “fair and reasonable” offer has been dismissed by nurses and midwives without a member vote.
Read more... District health boards ‘disappointed’ by NZNO response
April 2021 vol 27 no 3
April 1, 2021
NZNO members working in district health boards (DHBs) are poised to reject the multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) offer, now out for consideration.
April 2021 vol 27 no 3
April 1, 2021
Emergency nurses are pleading with the Government to urgently step in to alleviate “critical” and unsafe pressures on emergency departments (EDs) and hospitals around the country.
April 2021 vol 27 no 3
April 1, 2021
The proposed primary health care multi-employer collective agreement (PHC MECA) has been overwhelmingly endorsed by members.
April 2021 vol 27 no 3
April 1, 2021
About 60 NZNO nurses working in Christchurch managed isolation or quarantine (MIQ) facilities will be getting paid the same rates as their Auckland colleagues, after lobbying from NZNO.
April 2021 vol 27 no 3
April 1, 2021
Nurses can make a real difference in encouraging people to have the COVID-19 vaccine, says the nurse leading Wellington’s border vaccination programme, Marie Habowska.
