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Nurse wins prestigious Te Akenei Hei Māori health award
Thursday, 18 September 2014, 10:52 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Maureen Allan, Te Rarawa, Ngā Puhi and Tainui, is the latest recipient of Te Rūnanga o Aotearoa NZNO’s prestigious Akenehi Hei Award. The award is for a significant contribution to Māori health. A nurse with a long career community health, a Masters ... More >>
Nurses support PSA health workers’ industrial action
Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 11:59 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Forty six thousand nurses, midwives, students, kaimahi hauora, health care workers and allied health professionals from all around the country are sending their support to the PSA health workers who recently voted to take industrial action. More >>
Nurses troubled by cost cutting at Southern DHB
Friday, 4 July 2014, 2:03 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZ Nurses Organisation (NZNO) members at Southern DHB are sceptical about CEO Carole Heatly’s statement that she will do everything in her power to cut costs at the DHB without affecting patient services. More >>
Breaking the silence about violence in mental health
Friday, 13 June 2014, 12:27 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The impact of violence on mental health nurses is revealed through the experiences of a group of nurses in an article in the June issue of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s (NZNO) magazine, Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, published this week. More >>
A courageous budget was needed, a weak budget was delivered
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 4:20 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurses around the county are feeling disappointed that Budget 2014 has failed to deliver the increase in DHB funding required to even maintain current service levels. More >>
Equality for women is progress for all
Friday, 7 March 2014, 3:38 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is joining organisations around the country and the world celebrating International Women’s Day on Saturday 8 March. The United Nations theme for Women’s Day 2014, 'Equality for women is progress for all', is ... More >>
Caregivers going all the way for equal pay today
Monday, 3 February 2014, 10:34 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Thousands of New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) caregivers are looking forward to today’s court of appeal hearing of Kristine Bartlett’s equal pay case. More >>
Complete lack of health workforce planning a disaster
Monday, 2 December 2013, 10:02 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has learned that the reason why all first year graduate doctors have found positions is because the Government has paid hospitals to take them. This year 24 new doctors were “surplus to requirements” until the ... More >>
Patients suffer when staffing levels are insufficient
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 2:56 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says the Serious Adverse Events report released today is a good way of learning from mistakes to improve the overall safety of healthcare delivery in New Zealand. More >>
Care Rationing In New Zealand Hospitals a Cause For Concern
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 1:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Recent media reports highlighting ‘care rationing’ in two New Zealand hospitals are a cause for concern but not a surprise for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO). NZNO believes the practice is widespread as DHBs and the nursing team are ... More >>
Newly elected board for Nurses Organisation
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) Kaiwhakahaere, Kerri Nuku and President, Marion Guy are pleased to welcome newly elected directors to its board. More >>
Nurses welcome extension of General Medical Subsidy
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 10:59 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the Government’s announcement that the General Medical Subsidy (GMS) will be extended to nurses and nurse practitioners. Pharmacists will also become eligible for the subsidy. The General Medical Subsidy ... More >>
Nurses unfairly blamed for systemic failures
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 1:03 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is extremely disappointed and disturbed that Rymans is publically blaming nurses for failure of care in their Malvina Major facility in Wellington. More >>
Employment Changes Are Bad Medicine For New Zealanders
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 9:21 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is disappointed that a Bill that will remove important pay and condition protections for working New Zealanders passed its first reading last night. More >>
NZNO supports nurses in low-decile schools
Sunday, 2 June 2013, 4:27 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO strongly endorses the Green Party’s $30 million plan, announced in Christchurch today, to put a nurse in every low decile school in the country, as part of its strategy to eliminate child poverty. More >>
Nurses Celebrate International Nurses Day
Friday, 10 May 2013, 3:04 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurses all around the country are preparing to celebrate International Nurses Day on Sunday 12 May. This year’s theme is Closing the Gap: the Millennium Development Goals: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, which are internationally recognised health related ... More >>
NZNO celebrates International Day of the Midwife
Friday, 3 May 2013, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) celebrates International Day of the Midwife on Sunday 5 May. NZNO is proud to represent over 650 New Zealand midwives who support thousands of women every year through pregnancy and birth. More >>
Nurses join fight for Wairau hospital
Friday, 8 March 2013, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is joining the residents of Blenheim as they fight for health services to remain in the area. The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board review of services at Wairau Hospital could result in only elective ... More >>
Focus on health targets not the answer to healthy population
Sunday, 3 March 2013, 11:57 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is concerned that Government health targets plus demands to cut millions of dollars from their budgets is forcing DHBs to narrow their focus and sideline health equity for the populations they serve. More >>
DHB decision-making in times of scarcity and its impact
Friday, 22 February 2013, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
In mid 2012 Professor Don Matheson was asked by a community group to assist them in understanding why the primary health care service they were using was having its funding reduced. More >>
