June 2023
May 24, 2023
Gisborne Hospital ward 5 nurses and health-care assistants are jubilant over winning the right to strike for safer conditions and say it opens the door for other nurses struggling in unsafe conditions to take action.
June 2023
May 24, 2023
Nominations are now being called for three nurse members to be elected by the nursing profession to the Nursing Council board. Elected members will serve for a period of three years.
Read more... 2023 nominations for the election of Nursing Council members are now open
June 2023
May 23, 2023
The funded brand of phenobarbitone — a barbiturate used mainly to manage epilepsy — used in this country is about to change. Prescribers need to carefully manage this change-over for patients.
Read more... Phenobarbitone tablets: Brand change for epilepsy medication
June 2023
May 21, 2023
Gisborne Hospital nurses say they’re not surprised by Te Whatu Ora’s move to try and block their strike with legal action.
June 2023
May 18, 2023
Nursing students were left bitterly disappointed by Budget 2023, which contained scant specific new initiatives to support them, and grow the nursing workforce.
Read more... ‘Where’s the plan?’ Student nurses left disappointed by Budget 2023
June 2023
May 18, 2023
Where are high-needs patients cared for in general practice? This is the second in a series of articles about a major research project comparing models of general practice in New Zealand.
June 2023
May 17, 2023
Registered nurse (RN) Jo Fortune, 47, is a passionate advocate for community nursing, and even says she’d encourage her kids to follow in her footsteps – but she hopes Budget 2023 will provide more support for those pursuing the profession.
Read more... Budget 2023: Bigger investment needed to boost Māori, Pacific nursing
June 2023
May 17, 2023
The journey to complete a master of nursing has served to further ignite Tania Bailey’s passion for reducing health inequities for Māori.
Read more... Turning perception into practice: Advocating for cultural safety in health care
June 2023
May 17, 2023
A United States law firm which acts for people exposed to asbestos has produced a thorough guide to mesothelioma.
June 2023
May 16, 2023
A deadly fire at a Wellington hostel used by migrant nurses and other hospital staff described as a “one in one hundred year” event by Fire and Emergency New Zealand, has killed at least six people with another 11 still unaccounted for.
Read more... Nurses and hospital staff among survivors of deadly Wellington fire
June 2023
May 16, 2023
Nursing staff at Gisborne Hospital’s ward 5 feel they have no choice but to take strike action this month, after worsening conditions have left them and patients increasingly unsafe.
June 2023
May 9, 2023
Māori nurses joined over 1000 indigenous peoples calling for their rights to be upheld, and an end to discrimination at a United Nations forum.
Read more... ‘Humbled’ in the presence of global indigenous leaders
June 2023
May 8, 2023
An Auckland clinical nurse educator explains, in poetry, why you should not say ‘I’m just a nurse’.
June 2023
May 5, 2023
Practice nurses are ‘absolutely slammed’ as they try to provide basic community health care amidst overwhelming patient need. Some have called it quits, while others are living in hope their value will finally be recognised.
Read more... ‘Absolutely slammed’ practice nurses bewildered over pay battle
February 2024
January 1, 2022
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