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Tararu Snake Returns
Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 10:09 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Spurred on by community support from their protest last week, registered nurses, care-givers and support staff from Tararu Rest Home and Hospital will tomorrow return to Thames’ main street with their snake. More >>
Aged Care Workers Snake The Street
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 8:54 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Registered nurses, care-givers and support staff from Tararu Rest Home and Hospital have come up with a novel way of drawing attention to their plight. More >>
Staffing levels in aged care below guidelines
Monday, 3 October 2005, 12:08 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Staffing levels in aged care are well below Ministry of Health-supported indicators for safe staffing, according to a just-published New Zealand Nurses’ Organisation study. More >>
Guardian Strike On As Mediation Fails
Friday, 23 September 2005, 11:16 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Next week’s strike action involving more than 500 staff of Guardian Healthcare Limited is set to go ahead after mediation between the parties failed to settle the dispute. More >>
Nurses Show Power Of Collective Action
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 1:49 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation have shown the power of collective action by winning our fair pay claim in DHBs and are now set to collectively achieve our other goals," said NZNO president Jane O’Malley today, on the eve of the ... More >>
Nurses’ Organisation Welcomes Cullen Commitment
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 1:07 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has joined Healthcare Providers NZ in welcoming Finance Minister Michael Cullen’s commitment to a significant increase in aged care funding. More >>
NZNO Welcomes Move to Extend Nurse Prescribing
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 11:53 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The move to extend prescribing rights to nurse practitioners will improve access to services and health outcomes and taps into the enormous potential of nurses to improve the delivery of health services,” says NZNO professional nursing advisor ... More >>
Equality Needed to Eliminate Poverty
Friday, 9 September 2005, 1:13 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO supports tomorrow's international White Band day preceding the UN General Assembly review of the Millennium Declaration to eradicate extreme poverty by meeting the target of 0.7% of Gross National Income in aid assistance. More >>
National's Aged Care Policy Won't Fix the Pay
Thursday, 8 September 2005, 3:29 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The money National has promised for the struggling aged care sector is a drop in the bucket and there is no guarantee any of it would find its way into nurses' and caregivers' pay packets, said the New Zealand Nurses Organisation today. More >>
Nurse Maude Strike To Go Ahead
Thursday, 8 September 2005, 1:19 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Around 200 registered and enrolled nurses and caregivers employed by Canterbury's Nurse Maude Association will strike for 24 hours from 7am Friday 9th September. More >>
Tax cuts have Nat'l health policy running on empty
Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 1:29 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
National's health policy falls well short of what is needed to maintain current services and deliver improvements in staffing and quality, says the NZ Nurses Organisation. More >>
New president for New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 9:41 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation have elected a new president, current vice president Marion Guy. More >>
Nurses support health and wellness checks
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 5:14 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation strongly supports the Green Party policy of free annual health and wellness checks for all New Zealanders, run by nurses said NZNO president Jane O’Malley today. More >>
The health risk from National’s IR policies
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 11:36 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurses and other health workers have benefited from the current Labour-led government’s industrial relations policies, strengthening the health workforce in a way that improves the health system for all New Zealanders,” said New Zealand Nurses organisation spokeswoman ... More >>
Historic Parity Step For Primary Health Nurses
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 10:59 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurses and other primary healthcare workers across the country have overwhelmingly voted yes to negotiating together for a multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) to win pay parity with public hospitals. More >>
Funding Swallowed Up In Tax Cuts For Top Earners
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 12:15 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"The nearly $4 billion National wants to give in tax cuts leaves nothing to fix the funding crisis in aged care," said NZNO spokeswoman Cee Payne-Harker today. More >>
Canterbury Nurse Maude Staff To Strike For Parity
Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 5:27 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Canterbury Nurse Maude nurses working in the hospice, hospital and district nursing and community services have today voted overwhelmingly to strike for 24 hours on 9 September in pursuit of parity with their district health board counterparts. More >>
Beware the stranger bearing gifts
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 12:22 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO is urging caution as middle income earners assess National’s proposed tax cuts. “After every round of across the board tax cuts income inequality has worsened, the health of the poor has worsened, and funding for public health services has fallen” ... More >>
Mileage money funded through axing subsidies
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 3:46 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"The National Party's promise to re-fund mileage for home care workers traveling between clients using money saved by axing subsidies for adults under 65 to visit the doctor is giving with one hand and taking away with the other," said NZNO spokesperson ... More >>
National's Primary Health approach "grave concern"
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Indications on the direction of National's health policy will be of grave concern to nurses on the front line of primary health care delivery, says the Nurses Organisation. More >>
