By Mary Longmore
September 10, 2024
New chair of Nurse Practitioners NZ Chelsea Wilmott predicts NP numbers will soon double — but warns nurses can be their own worst enemy.
Read more... New nurse practitioner chair wants to see NP numbers grow ‘like ivy’
By Renee Kiriona
August 30, 2024
NZNO – Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa has joined with the nation to mourn the passing of Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII.
Read more... NZNO pays tribute to the Māori King
By Fiona Hunt-Baker
August 30, 2024
Kiwi nurses who volunteer aboard Mercy Ships’ floating hospitals at African ports, come back home with their passion for nursing invigorated.
Read more... Kiwi nurses help transform lives through Mercy Ships’ surgical care
By Jiff Stewart
August 28, 2024
Retired Wellington nurse Jiff Stewart spoke at Wednesday’s picket against staff cuts outside retirement village owners’ $2000-a-head conference. This is her kōrero.
Read more... ‘I want to be safe’ — a former nurse and resident begs retirement villages to stop cutting staff
By Mary Longmore
August 28, 2024
Retirees, families and supporters turn out to picket $2000-a-head retirement village conference as aged care staff and care hours are being cut.
Read more... Residents and families picket retirement village owners’ conference
By Mary Longmore
August 28, 2024
Seventeen new scholarships are being launched to support “passionate” and under-represented Auckland University of Technology (AUT) nursing students on clinical placements over the next three years.
Read more... New Southern Cross scholarships will fund 17 AUT nursing students on clinical placements
By Anita Cook
August 26, 2024
A Wellington nurse laments the way nurses are being treated lately after putting their lives on the line during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more... Nurses — have we gone from hero to zero?
By Lauren Miller
August 26, 2024
After writing a concerned letter, NZNO’s emergency nurses met Minister of Health Shane Reti earlier this year, to discuss the realities of working on the frontline. As rallies over unsafe staffing in EDs continue, they share some of their kōrero here.
Read more... Emergency nurses share woes with health minister
By Renee Kiriona
August 23, 2024
Whether it’s in Middlemore Hospital’s emergency department or in Auckland’s urban Māori community, Dhyanne Hohepa is a leader.
Read more... Ngāti Raukawa nurse honoured with Te Akenehi Hei Award
By Kathy Stodart
August 22, 2024
A Māori nursing leader at Southern Cross Healthcare is bringing te ao Māori into the world of private surgical care, and is using his own research to back up this work.
Read more... Bringing te ao Māori into private surgical care
By Mary Longmore
August 13, 2024
Wellington aged-care facility Village at the Park has shaved 42 hours off proposed nursing and caregiving cutbacks, after residents rallied behind staff with a picket and petition.
Read more... Wellington aged-care residents and staff win ‘faint concession’ after picket, petition
By Mary Longmore
August 13, 2024
News that Te Whatu Ora Waikato is recruiting 59 nursing graduates into supported-entry roles at Waikato Hospital and other areas has made some of New Zealand’s newest nurses “so happy”.
Read more... Green light to recruit 59 nurse graduates at Te Whatu Ora Waikato, in wake of job offer glitch
By Pipi Barton
August 13, 2024
In an urgent call to better support New Zealand-trained nurses, senior Māori nursing lecturer at NorthTec, Pipi Barton (Ngāti Hikairo ki Kāwhia) recalls being an out-of-work nursing graduate in the 1990s.
Read more... Left out in the cold: Is it really about health budget constraints?
By Renee Kiriona
August 12, 2024
Inspired by her “Poppy” and driven by the need for better health outcomes for Māori, Shauna Power has set her sights on a career in nursing our country’s next generation.
Read more... Shauna Power humbled by wāhine toa scholarship
By Mary Longmore
August 7, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says it is “committed to supporting” new nursing graduates who missed out on supported-entry roles to find work — but not in New Zealand’s public hospitals.
Read more... Nursing workforce landscape ‘significantly changed’ — Te Whatu Ora
By Kathy Stodart
August 7, 2024
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By Mary Longmore
August 5, 2024
Community nurses say they are “disgusted” with a pay offer of one more dollar an hour from their employer, Access Community Health.
Read more... Extra buck an hour offer ‘insulting’, say community nurses as they go back out on strike
By Mary Longmore
August 5, 2024
Sixty-six Hamilton graduates from Wintec’s nursing school are in limbo after Te Whatu Ora Waikato mistakenly offered them supported-entry jobs — then withdrew them due to a human “clerical error”.
Read more... 66 Waikato graduates in limbo after hospital job offer ‘glitch’
By New graduate nurses
August 2, 2024
A range of new graduates — upset and frustrated about not being placed in a job — have shared their stories in these letters. Their names have been withheld by request.
Read more... Letters from distressed new graduates
By Mary Longmore
August 2, 2024
Blindsided, abandoned and heart-broken — these are the feelings of some of our newest nurse graduates who missed out on hospital jobs — many of whom are heading to Australia.
Read more... Jobless nursing graduates feel ‘heart-broken and abandoned’