By Renee Kiriona
February 14, 2025
New Zealand’s largest rest-home owner Oceania Healthcare boasts in its latest financial report upward arrows on all key economic outputs from total comprehensive income to operating cashflow to assets. Every output has a good story for its board of directors and shareholders. But…
Read more... Oceania Healthcare: Company books in good shape, but workers face more struggles
By Mary Longmore
February 14, 2025
A Christchurch family say they have been unable to get the specialist inpatient care they desperately need after their adult anorexic daughter Emma Gallagher severely relapsed last year.
Read more... ‘We are potentially watching our daughter die’ — Christchurch nurse aide’s plea for help
By Renee Kiriona
February 13, 2025
Like many other grandparents and parents, Bob Rolleston travelled hundreds of kilometres across the country early this morning to give his mokopuna granddaughter to Whitireia’s bachelor of nursing Māori. He has worked in what he calls the “broken health system” but today he got more hope after seeing the huge interest by his moko and many other Māori in becoming “warrior nurses.”
Read more... Grandfather excited at Whitireia growing the next wave of ‘warrior nurses’
By Annelie Gannaway
February 13, 2025
Former mental health nurse Annelie Gannaway explains why the hospice she works in is not a sad place.
Read more... Former NZ mental health nurse finds peace working at holistic Swedish hospice
By Renee Kiriona
February 12, 2025
More and more Māori families are taking their cultural and spiritual practices into hospitals as a way to calm the nerves of their relatives going into surgery.
Read more... Doctors and nurses touched by karakia in 12-hour surgery
By Mary Longmore
February 10, 2025
As a third of general practices close their doors to new patients, frontline nurses put out a desperate plea for more funding.
Read more... ‘Unappreciated and underpaid’ primary health nurses speak out
By the Communications team, University of Canterbury
February 7, 2025
Helping establish graduate-entry and advanced nursing practice courses have been highlights of Cathy Andrew’s role as executive dean of the University of Canterbury’s faculty of health.
Read more... Cathy Andrew — a passionate advocate for regional education
By Kathy Stodart
February 3, 2025
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Read more... FEBRUARY 2025 crossword
By Mary Longmore
January 31, 2025
New Minister of Health Simeon Brown was blocked by protestors in Dunedin after announcing that a scaled-back hospital new build would go ahead.
Read more... Protests erupt after ‘shell’ Dunedin Hospital announcement by new health minister
By Mary Longmore
January 31, 2025
About 20 nursing and carer staff at Oceania’s Lady Allum Retirement Village in Auckland’s leafy Milford suburb carried out an impromptu picket yesterday, after a proposed restructure.
Read more... Impromptu picket at Auckland retirement home over proposed roster changes
By Renee Kiriona
January 30, 2025
Nurses are being forced to walk from their jobs in the community, where they are desperately needed, to other spaces where there is a health crisis or even further, to foreign lands.
Read more... Poor pay forcing nurses to hīkoi from one crisis to another
By Renee Kiriona
January 28, 2025
The Treaty of Waitangi and its principles are the solution to fixing the broken foundation of the country’s health system, Parliament’s Justice Select Committee has heard.
Read more... ‘It plays with lives, especially Māori lives’ – NZNO
By Mary Longmore and Renee Kiriona
January 28, 2025
NZNO leaders say they will wait and see how new Minister of Health Simeon Brown responds to nurses’ concerns — but hope he will “listen to the people”.
Read more... Nurse leaders take ‘wait and see’ approach to new health minister
By Jean Classey
January 27, 2025
What’s the difference between these three pay processes? An experienced NZNO delegate explains.
Read more... ‘Pay parity or pay equity or equal pay. I am confused! ‘
By Andrew Redpath
January 23, 2025
Nurse educators need to be recruited from a broader range of expertise, a nurse lecturer argues.
Read more... A multidisciplinary approach to nurse lecturing is needed in New Zealand
By Mary Longmore
January 17, 2025
Eleven days after a nurse was choked to unconsciousness, NZNO’s emergency nurses say 24/7 security is needed in all emergency departments (EDs).
Read more... Round-the-clock security needed in EDs, say emergency nurses
By Michelle Prattley
January 17, 2025
Enrolled nurse section (ENS) chair Michelle Prattley explains why enrolled nurses will have more freedom to practise their nursing skills from January 20. |
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Read more... Enrolled nurses finally recognised as skilled independent practitioners
By Mary Longmore
January 16, 2025
Community mental health nurses are considering stab-proof vests and personal alarms as part of a “suite of options”, after a nurse was stabbed while on an acute after-hours mental health callout in Rotorua recently.
Read more... Community mental health nurses consider stab-proof vests after knife attack
By Abby*
January 16, 2025
‘If you spent a day with me in ED, you’d never come back.’ In the wake of a nurse strangulation attempt, a senior emergency nurse says staff are exposed to abuse and aggression most days.
Read more... ‘I’m gonna rip your head from your body’ — ED nurse tells of constant aggression
By Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand
January 1, 2022
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