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Rosebank Treats Aged Care Workers Appallingly
Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 3:36 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) who work at Rosebank a residential aged care facility in Ashburton will be having a three hour picket from 12noon – 3pm on Thursday 16th October outside Rosebank on Walnut Avenue in Ashburton to protest ... More >>
Nurses Welcome Labour Plan for Universal Allowance
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 4:26 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is delighted that the Labour Party has announced policy on a universal student allowance for all tertiary students. More >>
National Promises to Improve Hospice Funding
Friday, 3 October 2008, 12:40 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is impressed with the announcement by National that they will increase funding to New Zealand Hospices. More >>
Recommendations Good for Aged Care Workforce
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 10:43 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is very pleased with the recommendations made in the report by the Health Select Committee as a result of an almost 34,000 strong petition submitted in 2007. More >>
Maori Primary Health Care – Wages Below Standard
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has been lobbying the government, in partnership with employers, for additional funding to be provided to Maori and Iwi primary health providers, though Te Rau Kokiri (a Multi Employer Collective Agreement) to address ... More >>
NZNO: The Heart of Healthcare in Aotearoa
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 1:50 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The NZNO (New Zealand Nurses Organisation) two-day biennial conference commences on Wednesday 17th September. Three hundred nurses, student nurses midwives, caregivers and other healthcare professionals have gathered from around the country from a membership ... More >>
Labours Primary Health Care Strategy Positive
Friday, 12 September 2008, 4:47 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation(NZNO) is welcoming the Labour Party policy for primary health as announced today by David Cunliffe. More >>
Nationals Health Policy Lacking in Initiative
Friday, 12 September 2008, 12:08 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The first in a series of health policy releases from the National Party was made yesterday. More >>
NZNO Wants Answers from Nursing Council
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 9:41 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A group of 137 enrolled nurses have finally got justice, with the Minister of Health David Cunliffe acting on the recommendation of the Regulations Review Committee (RRC), made last year, that these nurses, who trained between 2000 and September 18, 2004, ... More >>
Law Changes Make Life Better for Working Women
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 1:40 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is delighted that legislation was passed last night to provide for breaks for women to breast feed at work and also the requirement of meal breaks at work for all workers. More >>
10,000 Strong And Calling for Safe Staffing
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 12:11 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and the Service and Food Workers Union: Nga Ringa Tota (SFWU) are calling on the Government to act to address the serious need for minimum staffing levels in residential aged care facilities. Currently there ... More >>
Banning strikes won’t make problems disappear
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 4:57 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Banning health professionals’ right to strike will not make employment relationship problems disappear, according to NZNO chief executive, Geoff Annals. More >>
Workforce Issues Not New to Nursing
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 1:25 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Figures showing gaps in New Zealand’s nursing workforce are not news to members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, which has been lobbying successive Governments to implement Safe Staffing initiatives for years, says Chief Executive Geoff Annals. More >>
Pay Parity Necessary for Mâori and Iwi
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 5:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Mâori and Iwi Primary Health Care workers and employers are united today in their call for Parliament to provide the funding required to deliver pay parity with health care workers working for District Health Boards. More >>
Need to Provide Ongoing Education
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses' Organisation welcomes today's Morning Report discussion on palliative care in residential aged care settings. More >>
Good Employers Reap the Rewards
Friday, 23 May 2008, 1:47 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Auckland’s religious and welfare based Aged Care providers are showing the way forward for industrial relations in the sector, fostering a respectful and productive relationship with their workforce that has resulted in enviable staff retention rates, ... More >>
Healthcare Investment Must Deliver Safe Care
Friday, 23 May 2008, 9:49 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation welcomes today’s Budget announcement of additional funding streams for the health sector. As well as an extra $750 million per annum going to DHBs to enhance the delivery of health services, the Government has included: More >>
Nurse Practitioner Skills Wasted
Friday, 11 April 2008, 10:16 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurse Practitioners’ skills, knowledge and experience continue to be under-utilised, unnecessarily hindering health care accessibility issues in New Zealand. More >>
NZNO backs Health and Disability report
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 9:22 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO is heartened by the consistent and firm approach taken by Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson in documenting the faulty ways some district health board (DHBs) have managed their staffing resources. More >>
Nurses Support Nationwide Hospital Safety System
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 9:20 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Minister of Health’s Quality Improvement Committee should take the lead in urgently initiating a national system to collect and analyse data on incidents and sentinel events in New Zealand’s public health system, says the New Zealand Nurses ... More >>
