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As part of the celebrations to mark the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife at the Whanganui District Health Board, a display of nursing medals was mounted in the cabinet in the main hospital corridor.
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When words are not enough, there is always singing. This is the philosophy behind the Wellington group Whakaahuru – The Gentle Singers.
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
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Nurses working in Auckland’s managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities are being declined Christmas leave due to ongoing staff shortages, says an NZNO organiser.
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Concerns about safe staffing at managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities, particularly in Auckland, continue to be reported to NZNO, acting associate professional services manager Kate Weston said.
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Co-editor Anne Manchester riffles through 25 years of highlights, before closing the Kai Tiaki keyboard for the last time.
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The following is a selection of books on a range of topics that have been added to the NZNO library over the past two years, some of them new and others new to the library.
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This second article of a two-part analysis looks at advertising in the second 50 years of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand’s existence and how the nature of that advertising changed, compared to the first 50 years.
Read more... The changing nature of advertising in Kai Tiaki
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
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The South Pacific Nurses Forum (SPNF) is to form a working group to find ways of better representing indigenous nurses on the International Council of Nurses (ICN).
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Having a COVID-19 pandemic in the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife had put a “dual spotlight” on nurses and midwives, and the opportunity to advance nursing and midwifery, World Health Organization (WHO) chief nursing officer Elizabeth Iro told the forum.
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New Zealand and Australian nurses describe the ‘scary rollercoaster’ of working in a global pandemic, in virtual regional meeting.
Read more... Nurses share tales of COVID-19 at 2020 South Pacific Nurses Forum
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Named neonatal nurse of the year for his ‘quiet’ support of families, Bernard Hutchinson knows what they are going through.
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Bonnie Castillo, RN, is the executive director of National Nurses United (NNU) and of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organising Committee (CNA/NNOC). She was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for 2020.
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Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) was the first speaker at the Indigenous Nurses Aotearoa Conference. She is an award-winning broadcaster and commentator who, having decided to head to medical school six years ago, will begin as a junior doctor at Middlemore Hospital next year.
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The effect of COVID-19 on conducting research is highlighted in the 2020 issue of NZNO’s research journal, Kai Tiaki Nursing Research (KTNR).
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NZNO’s board has agreed to donate $5000 to the International Council of Nurses (ICN) disaster fund, to support the Order of Nurses in Lebanon, following the catastrophic explosion in August this year.
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A draft Māori model of wellbeing and organising, He Tāngata Ara Poutama, has been presented to te poari after six months of work by NZNO Māori cultural adviser Manny Downs.
Read more... Māori model of organising and wellbeing in pipeline
December 2020 / January 2021 vol 26 no 11
December 1, 2020
NZNO will need to “punch way above its weight” to support nurses through a period of change, when the Government begins a health restructure, chief executive Memo Musa told the board.
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NZNO membership in the first four months of this financial year has seen a net decrease of 2.3 per cent, corporate services manager David Woltman told the board.
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Representatives from the mental health nursing section and cancer nurses college will be invited to be involved in the review of NZNO’s constitution, it was agreed at November’s NZNO board meeting.
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The Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019 and the Whakaari/White Island eruption in December required trauma responses on a scale and type not previously required in this country. The trauma nursing workforce was critical to the response to both these events.
