Issue: December 2021 vol 27 no 11

After two years of pressure from the Enrolled Nurse Section (ENS), enrolled nurse (EN) graduates can from 2022 apply for the ACE graduate programme while undertaking or awaiting results of state exams.

The government announcement of a $600 million-plus boost for intensive care services has come with an NZNO warning about the state of the system in the face of a COVID-19 surge.

After nearly 114 years, this is the last printed edition of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand.

About 40 new enrolled nurse (EN) positions are being established in primary health care (PHC) over the next four years, to try and improve access to mental health and addiction (MH&A) services, particularly for Māori and Pacific people.

Both Wellington and Hutt Valley District Health Boards are celebrating getting safe staffing programme care capacity demand management (CCDM) up and running.

A nurse has helped develop a self check-in kiosk to screen visitors and staff at aged residential care (ARC) facilities for COVID-19 symptoms.

NZNO kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku’s global recognition for her human rights work has been celebrated – in a very local way – at Te Marae o Te Whare Takiura in Napier.

Nursing students will be able to use their experiences of COVID-19-related practice such as swabbing, vaccination and contact-tracing as part of their clinical learning, under proposed new nursing standards from the Nursing Council.

Threats of NZNO member-led protests saw three district health boards (DHBs) back down from playing Christmas Grinch over pay increases.

A change from hospital nursing to community work at a hospice has seen one health–care professional branch out into security technology.