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Int'l Older Persons' Day - Respecting Our Elderly
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 11:17 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota say that International Older Persons Day is the perfect time for New Zealanders to change our mindset when it comes to caring for our elderly. More >>
Quality Care: Respecting Our Elderly
Monday, 1 October 2007, 9:39 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota say that International Older Persons Day is the perfect time for New Zealanders to change our mindset when it comes to caring for our elderly. More >>
Collaborative Bargaining Gets Results
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 5:18 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation and District Health Boards have reached agreement on a Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) covering 20,000 nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants working in New Zealand’s Public Hospitals. More >>
Positive Collective Bargaining Belies HCPNZ Positn
Monday, 3 September 2007, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Offers made to unionised Aged Care workers by four major employers in the sector show that collective negotiations are making progress, despite a Judicial Review launched by Health Care Providers New Zealand. More >>
Nurses Call off Strike in Fiji
Friday, 10 August 2007, 10:33 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) chief executive Geoff Annals has been advised by the general secretary of the Fiji Nursing Association (FNA) that striking nurses in Fiji will return to work on Saturday. More >>
Nurses in Struggle against Domestic Violence
Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 3:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation takes a zero tolerance stance on all violence and supports the proposal to use nurses to help identify and eliminate domestic abuse. More >>
Flexible Working Legislation Means Safer Hospitals
Monday, 30 July 2007, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says Green MP Sue Kedgley’s Flexible Working Hours bill will be an important tool for addressing safe staffing issues at New Zealand’s hospitals. More >>
Sustainable Employment Relations
Thursday, 19 July 2007, 2:12 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO condemns the aggressive and divisive tactics used by Spotless Services Ltd to deprive their employees working at New Zealand’s public hospitals of the terms and conditions agreed to by 17 DHBs and 3 private companies. More >>
NZNO disappointed at Bills failure
Tuesday, 17 July 2007, 12:06 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO is disappointed at the fate of the Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill, now on hold after the Government failed to get the numbers to support the Bill. More >>
NZNO congratulates Hutt Valley DHB
Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO congratulates Hutt Valley District Health Board (DHB) on winning magnet hospital status. “We congratulate all the nursing staff and other health care staff at Hutt on achieving magnet status. It has been a long and exhaustive process which has revealed ... More >>
Aged Care Workforce Highlights Staff Shortages
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 9:42 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation working in residential aged care have chosen today, the shortest day of the year, to highlight continued staffing shortages in aged care facilities. More >>
Collective bargaining only way to solve pay crisis
Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 5:11 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The Government’s linking of funding for the aged the aged care workforce with collective bargaining is the only way to genuinely solve the low pay crisis across the sector,” said New Zealand Nurses Organisation organising service manager Cee ... More >>
Nurses Day: A Commitment to Quality Healthcare
Friday, 11 May 2007, 1:00 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tomorrow is International Nurses Day which is celebrated every year on May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is proud to take part in the celebration of this year’s theme, Positive Practice ... More >>
Nurses Campaign for Traditional Kiwi Values
Monday, 7 May 2007, 4:56 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation are asking Kiwis to draw on their traditional sense of Fair Play and support the campaign for better working conditions and safer hospitals. More >>
Funding Mechanism Clearly Still Required
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 1:46 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Attempts by HealthCare Providers New Zealand today to downplay the potential for wage increases in the Aged Care sector are the clearest sign yet that a mechanism is required to ensure taxpayer dollars invested into Aged Care end up going to working ... More >>
Campaigning Pays Off for Aged Care Workers
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 12:03 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Unionised Aged Care workers have plenty to celebrate today as a May Day funding announcement by the Minister of Health Pete Hodgson gives a much needed cash injection to the most neglected and under-valued sector of the New Zealand health system. More >>
Statement from Geoff Annals re Michael Bassett
Friday, 27 April 2007, 1:06 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
In 1982, then National Government Minister of Health, Aussie Malcolm, rejected nurses' claims for fair pay saying if he paid nurses more he would have to deny "the public of needed beds or of renal dialysis or cardiac surgery." More >>
Impending Nursing Shortage Must Be Addressed
Monday, 23 April 2007, 1:29 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The challenges facing our nation’s nursing workforce, raised on this morning’s Nine to Noon programme on Radio New Zealand National by Dr Annette Huntington of Massey University, are exactly the issues the New Zealand Nurses Organisation seeks ... More >>
Safe Staffing Vital to Providing Essential Care
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 1:18 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
District Health Boards have received a timely and necessary wake up call that Safe Staffing must be prioritised if failures to ensure patient safety recently identified at Wellington Hospital are to be addressed. More >>
Consultation Crucial on District Nursing
Monday, 2 April 2007, 5:02 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New Zealand’s District Nurses are anxious that potential service changes could undermine their ability to continue developing new services that respond to community need. More >>
