By Mary Longmore
May 7, 2024
A South Island nurse leader says being the first primary health service to receive a rainbow tick for inclusive practice is a “fantastic” achievement for her workplace.
Read more... Southern PHO first to get Rainbow Tick for inclusive practice
By Mary Longmore
May 3, 2024
Primary health nurses will burn out alongside their GP colleagues unless they get enough funding to adequately care for their complex communities, warns a Northland nursing leader.
Read more... Northland nurse director joins GP call for more funding as practices face closure
By Catherine Byrne
May 1, 2024
Nursing Council of New Zealand — Te Kaunihera Tapuhi o Aotearoa chief executive Catherine Byrne explains the new rules for overseas-trained nurses who want to practise in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Read more... Why a new assessment of IQN competence was developed
By He Ako Hiringa
April 24, 2024
In this webinar, Asthma NZ nurse educators Bekitemba Maseko and Ann Wheat highlight the importance of asthma action plans.
Read more... Asthma education through the eyes of your patients
By Kathy Stodart
April 24, 2024
Read more... It’s cool to kōrero — April 2024
By Kathy Stodart
April 16, 2024
Instructions: Click on any cell to get started. Click on vertical / horizontal lines to change direction, or direction can be changed by clicking on Space / Enter key. Across and Down Clues can be toggle visible by clicking on the down / up arrows.
Read more... APRIL 2024 crossword
By He Ako Hiringa
April 11, 2024
Large amounts of unused medications accumulate in people’s homes. Health professionals, including nurses, have an important role to play in reducing this medicinal waste and its harmful effects on the health budget, the environment and public safety.
Read more... What can you do to prevent the oversupply of medication?
By Mary Longmore
April 9, 2024
Emergency nurses fear tough new targets for emergency departments (EDs) will put already-stretched staff under more pressure, risking “gaming” of wait time data.
Read more... Tough new government health targets could backfire, warn nurses
By Jacqui O'Connor
April 9, 2024
In 1993 I graduated as a New Zealand registered nurse. Starting from university, we were never taught the importance of caring for ourselves, or other carers, to help meet the huge demands of our roles.
Read more... A nurse’s burnout leads to hospital for carers
By Mary Longmore
April 5, 2024
A new group of NZNO health-care assistants/kaiāwhina has big plans for their future — but is reassuring nurses there is no wish to encroach on their role.
Read more... Health-care assistant ambitions ‘no threat’ to nurses, says new NZNO group
By Sharyn Lovell
April 3, 2024
In these difficult economic times, and with another wave of COVID-19, many people are experiencing financial hardship alongside the usual life events.
Read more... Nurses Memorial Fund is there to help
By Mary Longmore
March 28, 2024
Concerns have been raised that newly streamlined pathways for internationally-qualified nurses (IQNs) into Aotearoa, New Zealand skip too lightly over cultural and clinical preparedness.
Read more... Faster, fairer pathways for overseas nurses into New Zealand, says Nursing Council
By Kathy Stodart
March 28, 2024
Read more... It’s cool to kōrero — March 2024
By Mary Longmore
March 27, 2024
Collective union action is the only way nurses will achieve safe staffing after years of being ignored, former director of the Safe Staffing Health Workplaces unit (SSHWU) Jane Lawless says.
Read more... When words fail: Why hasn’t anyone listened to nurses?
By Tania Gregory and Ann McAslan
March 26, 2024
Staff at Manu Ora, a small innovative Blenheim primary health care practice, were thrilled to receive three awards at the recent Marlborough Chamber of Commerce business awards.
Read more... Innovative Marlborough practice, Manu Ora, proud to be recognised in business awards
By Marie Buchanan and Preeti Charan
March 25, 2024
A recent conference brought together both stomal therapy nurses and those who have experienced ostomies – abdominal surgery to allow bodily waste to exit when a disease of the digestive or urinary system is present.
Read more... Stomal nurses conference brings patients, nurses and doctors together
By Mary Longmore
March 22, 2024
Members of NZNO’s professional colleges and sections were called on to “shape the issues” facing health, at an energetic college and section day in Te Whanganui-a-tara, Wellington, this week.
Read more... ‘If we don’t provide the voice of nursing, who will?’ Under-pressure nurses are determined to be heard
By Margaret Hughes
March 21, 2024
All nurses know that our practice should be linked to evidence, but even the idea of reading and assessing a piece of research can be overwhelming.
Read more... What is a systematic review, and how is it useful for nurses?
By Mary Longmore
March 14, 2024
Amid the ashes of Te Aka Whai Ora, Māori nurses will still be chasing better pay, safer staffing and culturally safe workplaces.
Read more... Te Aka Whai Ora is gone — but the aims of Māori nurses stay true
By Mary Longmore
March 8, 2024
Rising confidence amid more supportive pathways are behind a leap in nurses training to become mātanga tapuhi (nurse practitioners) this year, leaders say.
Read more... Nurse practitioner trainee numbers soar with 50 per cent funding boost