June 2025
Nursing sisters overcome the odds
June 4, 2025
The Witton sisters have weathered a pandemic, cyclone, poverty, two jobs each and multiple other challenges during their three-year journey to becoming qualified nurses.
June 2025
June 4, 2025
The Witton sisters have weathered a pandemic, cyclone, poverty, two jobs each and multiple other challenges during their three-year journey to becoming qualified nurses.
June 2025
June 3, 2025
Auckland perioperative nurses say forced overtime and sneaky ditching of callback payments has driven them to take strike action.
Read more... Nearly 400 Auckland perioperative nurses strike over ‘forced overtime’
June 2025
May 30, 2025
This Government knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing, says NZNO delegate Troy Stewart.
Read more... ‘Time to get noisy’ — Auckland nurse explains why he voted down Te Whatu Ora’s offer
May 2025
May 29, 2025
Women’s Refuge is starting a project to record our “her-story” (history). We want to gather the stories of wāhine who have been involved with Refuge as staff, kaimahi, or volunteers.
Read more... Women’s Refuge seeking wāhine for history project
June 2025
May 28, 2025
It’s time to stand up, says NZNO’s Te Whatu Ora bargaining team after eight exhausting months of negotiation led to an offer they say fails to lock in safe staffing, graduate employment or match the cost of living.
Read more... ‘We need you to stand with us’ — Te Whatu Ora bargaining team call on members
June 2025
May 27, 2025
NZNO’s perioperative nurses college (PNC) chair Emma Ladley wants to see more nursing students learn about perioperative nursing in their undergrad studies. | ![]() |
June 2025
May 26, 2025
Simple straightforward tools can work well to improve patients’ mental health in primary care.
Read more... Small steps, big impact: How to activate wellbeing in our patients
June 2025
May 22, 2025
They came in their hundreds, wearing bright lipstick. They chanted. They sang. And hundreds of people loudly supported four alternative pledges ahead of the National-led Government’s Budget 2025.
Read more... ‘Rage, rage, rage’ drives mass turnout to Budget 2025 pay equity protest
May 2025
May 21, 2025
To fix chronic staff shortages stopping New Zealanders seeing their GPs when they’re sick, the coalition Government must use Budget 2025 to keep nurses in the sector by paying them the same as hospital nurses, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says.
Read more... BUDGET 2025: Funding primary care nurses the answer to the health crisis
May 2025
May 21, 2025
Skilled nurses with the confidence to advocate for patients are essential for the care of vulnerable women and patients, argues NZNO’s women’s health college in the face of Government moves to loosen health workforce regulation.
Read more... Vulnerable women need safe hands of a nurse — women’s health college
June 2025
May 21, 2025
Nurses need to be very worried about the Regulatory Standards Bill – the latest law the Government is proposing, according to a registered nurse who has been monitoring the development of bill.
Read more... Regulatory Standards Bill: ‘Nurses need to be worried’
June 2025
May 21, 2025
‘It’s up to you now’ – that’s the message from NZNO constitutional review panel co-chair Grant Brookes, as all-member voting opens on a proposed new NZNO constitution.
Read more... ‘It’s up to you now’ — proposed new NZNO constitution goes to all-member vote
May 2025
May 16, 2025
The Government’s move on pay equity has swamped any benefit of the new bonding scheme for health-care workers, says a primary health care nursing leader.
Read more... Bonding scheme is ‘plaster on a gunshot wound’, says nursing leader
June 2025
May 16, 2025
On hospice awareness week, hospice nurses say they are demoralised and angry after the Government ditched their pay equity claim last week.
Read more... Struggling hospice nurses ‘shattered’ by pay equity changes
June 2025
May 15, 2025
Nurses were among many angry women workers who brought their mothers, children and wider whānau to Parliament today to protest the Government’s mass dumping of pay equity claims.
Read more... ‘It’s about respect’: Nurses protest at Parliament over pay equity claims
May 2025
May 13, 2025
Primary and Community Health Association (PCHA) chair Steve Chadwick says New Zealand’s struggling health system and nursing workforce have been dealt another significant blow by the mass dumping of 33 pay equity claims this month.
Read more... ‘Show some respect to nurses’ — Steve Chadwick on halting of pay equity claims
June 2025
May 9, 2025
Just 18 months after graduating, Auckland nurse Sophie Tomes explains why she is struggling with physical pain and mental anguish every day. | ![]() |
May 2025
May 9, 2025
A survivor of domestic violence who became a nurse to give better care than she experienced says constant short-staffing is making it really hard. | ![]() |
Read more... ‘We are burning out’ — Pacific nurses speak out on understaffing
May 2025
May 8, 2025
The 110th anniversary of the formation of the New Zealand Defence Force’s Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (RNZNC) was celebrated at the annual Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital Anzac Day service.
Read more... Military nurses mark 110th anniversary at Hawke’s Bay Hospital Anzac Day service
May 2025
May 8, 2025
NZNO student leaders say the 2025 survey launched this week will capture the lived experiences of nursing students — including the financial challenges they are facing.
Read more... 2025 survey will capture students’ lived experience