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Work is less fair from tomorrow
Thursday, 31 March 2011, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New laws that allow employers to sack any worker in their first 90 days in a job, without any reason and without the right of appeal, and limit union access to worksites come into force tomorrow. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Service ... More >>
Government must get tough on alcohol abuse
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 3:06 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), Māori nurses, emergency nurses and mental health nurses have all called on the government to get much tougher on New Zealand’s “disastrous drinking culture”. Speaking on the Alcohol Reform Bill at the Justice ... More >>
Cancer nurses can help reduce workforce stress
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 10:46 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Cancer nurses have endorsed associate professor John Carter’s call for greater use of nurse practitioners (NP) in cancer care. More >>
NZNO slams privatisation agenda
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 5:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes the Prime Minister’s speech to Parliament today (February 8) is a thinly veiled agenda for privatisation and cuts to services. More >>
Nurses Organisation congratulates Horowhenua health clinic
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 12:11 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) sends it congratulations to Horowhenua’s newest health clinic, the “Waiting-List Clinic”, which opens its door today. Central Primary Health Organisation (PHO) clinical director and director of nursing ... More >>
Tax cuts, GST increase threaten health of lowest earners
Monday, 22 November 2010, 5:16 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A poll revealing that most New Zealanders feel worse off following the tax cuts introduced on October 1, does not bode well for the health of the country’s most vulnerable, according to NZNO. More >>
Preventing serious and sentinel events
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 4:25 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Serious and Sentinel Events Report released today (November 17) demonstrates, yet again, that having enough appropriately skilled staff to provide safe care, is crucial in preventing patients dying or suffering a serious disability while in hospital, ... More >>
Nurses from all over the Pacific gather
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 11:49 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
More than 300 nursing leaders from 12 Pacific nations will gather in Auckland on Monday (November 8) for the opening of the 15th biennial South Pacific Nurses’ Forum (SPNF), last held in New Zealand in 1992. More >>
South Island neurosurgery service success
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) congratulates the South Island Neurosurgery Expert Panel for its holistic solution to keeping safe, high quality and sustainable neurosurgery services for all South Islanders. More >>
New graduates needed for future nursing workforce
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 10:41 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes new nursing graduates need to be employed to ensure the future of the nursing workforce. More >>
Govt sells off workers’ rights to big business
Friday, 29 October 2010, 4:45 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is extremely concerned that the Government has sold off the rights of New Zealand workers to big business. Legislation passed in parliament today makes all those who work for the film industry contractors rather ... More >>
Māori hauora present taonga to Minister Turia
Friday, 22 October 2010, 10:39 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses organisation (NZNO) and Te Runanga o Aotearoa NZNO today presented Associate Minister of Health, Tariana Turia with a special taonga made by nurses and health care workers from all around the country. More >>
Nurses support Minister’s statement on unions
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) supports Health Minister, Tony Ryall’s statement that he will not reconsider the rights of health unions to take strike action. He has said that laws allowing medical workers to take strike action will ... More >>
Nurses support Fairness at Work
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is holding paid union meeting in district health boards (DHBs) right around the country to support national Fairness at Work actions happening today. More >>
Nurses want to see GST removed from healthy food
Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 5:11 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) recently passed a remit to support the removal of GST from healthy food. More >>
NZNO encourages members to vote for nurses
Friday, 24 September 2010, 4:56 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is encouraging its members to vote for nurses who are standing for election to district health boards (DHB). More >>
Major aged-care review excludes workers’ views
Thursday, 9 September 2010, 3:48 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is deeply concerned about the absence of aged-care workers’ or residents’ perspectives in a major report on residential aged-care services, released yesterday. More >>
Government lacks courage in liquor law reforms
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 2:36 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes the government’s package of liquor law reforms focuses too much on young people, while ignoring the impact of alcohol abuse on those aged over 20. More >>
Gender pay gap hits low-paid workers harder
Thursday, 5 August 2010, 1:40 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned about the widening gap between men’s and women’s pay. More >>
Nurse practitioner heads new college for community
Friday, 30 July 2010, 11:49 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A nurse practitioner working in Katikati in the Bay of Plenty, Rosemary Minto, has been elected the chair of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s 2000-strong College of Primary Health Care Nurses. More >>
