March 2025
March 7, 2025
NZNO’s primary health care nurses are welcoming training places for an extra 60 nurse practitioners (NPs) in primary health each year — but say only pay parity will stem the exodus of nurses from the sector.
Read more... Extra 60 primary health NPs ‘nice’ but long-term pay boost needed, say nurses
March 2025
March 6, 2025
Here’s a new crossword for March. You can fill it in online, or download a PDF if you want to print it out and fill it in by hand.
March 2025
March 6, 2025
Minister of Health Simeon Brown says the Government is “absolutely committed” to pay parity for primary health-care nurses — but it would take time.
Read more... Government committed to pay parity for primary health nurses, claims Simeon Brown
March 2025
March 3, 2025
A family of unionists hit the picket line recently to support striking staff at Bupa’s South Auckland home in Wattle Downs — led by their 87-year-old mum who lives there.
Read more... 87-year-old resident takes to Bupa picket line in South Auckland
March 2025
March 3, 2025
Health-care assistant (HCA) and NZNO delegate Cath Hellyer shares her relentless 14-year battle for correct holiday backpay which led to a $15.2 million payout for 4000 Hawke’s Bay workers in November. But it’s still not over.
Read more... ‘The past 14 years of my life’. Holiday pay battler reflects on her long fight
February 2025
February 28, 2025
| NZNO’s college of emergency nurses (CENNZ) talks short-stay targets, the need for 24/7 security and their desire to provide safe care. |  |
Read more... ‘We do give really great care’ — emergency nurses bear the weight of systemic failings
February 2025
February 28, 2025
Fed up with being blamed for missing shorter-stay targets, NZNO’s emergency nurses have requested an urgent meeting with new Minister of Health Simeon Brown to ask for more support.
Read more... Emergency nurses call for urgent meeting with Simeon Brown over ED targets
February 2025
February 27, 2025
Despite grief at the “once in a generational opportunity” lost with the dissolution of Te Aka Whai Ora/Māori Health Authority, chief nurse Nadine Gray tells Kaitiaki she will not stop raising its Māori health kaupapa.
Read more... Chief nurse opens up on the challenges of working at Te Whatu Ora
February 2025
February 25, 2025
Aotearoa now has a new nursing degree. And its birth and inspiration have been drawn from the stories of health justice in the country’s most northern region and the realities there where tangata whenua face major health inequities.
Read more... New nursing course: ancestor-inspired, inequities-driven
February 2025
February 21, 2025
Nurses in Rotorua this month raised concerns about violence and aggression and unsafe staffing with their long-time local MP Todd McClay.
Read more... Rotorua nurses raise violence, safety concerns with local MP
February 2025
February 21, 2025
A proposal to cut 18 directors of nursing (DON) roles down to 14 at Te Whatu Ora has been scrapped after “strong” opposition.
Read more... Te Whatu Ora scraps proposed nursing leadership cuts
February 2025
February 20, 2025
Unions have been notified that Bupa, one of the biggest aged care companies in New Zealand, will be restructuring 17 of its sites all at once.
Read more... Another aged-care company plans major restructures
February 2025
February 20, 2025
A mental health nurse cautions against labelling all drug use as negative, and stigmatising people in the process.
Read more... ‘The way illegal drugs are discussed can cause more harm than the drugs themselves’
February 2025
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
February 2025
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.
February 2025
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
February 2025
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
January 2025
January 1, 2022
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