June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 10, 2021
Aotearoa turned purple on Wednesday as NZNO members went on strike around the nation.
Read more... Four corners of Aotearoa turn purple as nurses hit streets
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 9, 2021
If there was such a thing as an omen, then there it was: flying high above the hundreds of shouting health workers stretching out around the steps of Parliament.
Read more... Day of action, solidarity, as DHB members hit the streets
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Budget 2021 had an extra $4.7 billion for health, along with nearly half a million to kick-start its health reforms. But there was no indication of new funding for health worker salaries.
Read more... Government lays out cash for transition to new health system
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Māori and Pacific nursing degrees will still be available under a national nursing curriculum being developed by new super-institute, Te Pūkenga.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
NZNO professional nursing adviser Wendy Blair, RN, PhD, shares a summary of her research on the extent nurses in New Zealand recognise and report unsafe practice by their peers.
Read more... Unsafe practice: How nurses recognise and respond to unsafe practice by their peers
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Nurses around the country are being taught basic critical care skills, in case of a surge of patients due to a COVID-19 outbreak or any other event.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Enrolled nurses (ENs) are not likely to have their scope of practice extended until next year, Nursing Council chief executive Catherine Byrne told the EN section at their recent conference in May.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Some mental health patients should be able to remain under compulsory treatment orders but with yearly reviews, NZNO’s mental health nurses section (MHNS) suggests.
Read more... Compulsory orders ‘safety blanket’ for some patients
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Hearing how far perioperative nursing has come, at the theatre managers’ and educators’ conference held in Dunedin in May, made me feel proud of my profession and achievements as a nurse educator in perioperative services.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Lately, I have been spending time with NZNO’s College of Emergency Nurses NZ (CENNZ) as they desperately try to find solutions to overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) around the country.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
A late threat of legal action from Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) over a lack of contingency staff nearly derailed this month’s strike, NZNO industrial services manager Glenda Alexander said.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
People who most need help don’t come to clinics, says a rongoā practitioner who travels the country to reach those in need.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Palliative care is led by nurses in the isolated North Island East Cape, as there are few GPs. One nurse providing this service, Linda Hauraki, spoke at a symposium on end-of-life care for Māori.
Read more... How important nurses are in providing end-of-life care for Māori
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Nursing safety – in everyday work and the age of COVID-19 – were scrutinised by the NZNO board as strike action rolled out across Aotearoa.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Wellington’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has hired an extra 26 full-time equivalent (FTE) nurses, after safe staffing acuity tool TrendCare helped identify a large shortfall.
Read more... Wellington neonatal unit gets big staffing top-up
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
How do registered nurses with disabilities or impairment manage their work and ensure they practise safely?
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Learning she had twin older brothers who died as premature babies helped Helen Barwick commit to a nursing career in neonates.
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
Lead organiser and former Labour minister Iain Lees-Galloway shares insights on how the Government shapes policy and laws – and its recent pay-freeze mistake.
Read more... Pay freeze is bad policy and unions are fighting it
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
What happens when a health worker doesn’t want the COVID-19 vaccination? What if they work in a sector particularly vulnerable to the virus? NZNO aged care industrial advisor Lesley Harry gives insights into the state-of-play in a sector with ‘disproportionate’ risks to residents.
Read more... What happens when workers don’t want to be vaccinated
June 2021 vol 27 no 5
June 1, 2021
“Drastic” action is needed to train and recruit millions of nurses globally amid a pandemic and shortage of six million nurses, says the International Council of Nurses (ICN).
