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1 week ago | 
thepost.co.nz | Wei Shao |Cate Macintosh
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
The boost in placements will start with 130 extra places next semester, and a further 700 from 2024, Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall said in a statement on Sunday. “In this year’s July and August intake we’re making it possible for 130 additional students to commence their nursing studies nationwide.”The clinical placements announcement was the first action from a national health workforce plan, launched by the minister on Tuesday, to address a “confronting” deficit in health care staff.
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Jul 1, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
Provision of nutritious food for nightshift staff and psychological support following adverse events, are among a wide range of measures to retain and grow the health workforce, announced yesterday. Speaking to media about the national health workforce plan to fill 8000 missing health-care staff vacancies, Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall said some of the gaps were “confronting”. Of about 8000 health-care workers who are missing from the system right now, 4800 of those are nurses.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
President Anne Daniels said the constitution had become unwieldy, impossible to use and no longer reflected the organisation, its values and aspirations. “We need to have an organisation that is fit for purpose and serves the needs of our members and it hasn’t done that for a long time.”Members’ views will contribute to the development of key concepts for a new constitution, to be drafted and voted on at the 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM).
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
It should have been a cause for celebration – $10 million to lift the pay of nursing staff who are delivering health care to “seriously unwell” Māori and Pacific people. Instead, in many cases, delivery of pay disparity funding has not flowed through to those it is intended for – nursing staff, and NZNO members. One problem is the Government’s decision to exclude general practice nurses employed by Māori, iwi and Pacific providers from the first tranche of funding.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
Naomi WaipouriThe registered nurse (RN), Te Poari representative for Greater Wellington and bachelor of nursing Māori kaiako (tutor) became politically aware after a bad placement experience. Actualising te Tiriti: Supporting change within workplaces to actualise te Tiriti is an important political action that all nurses can take. Being politically aware: Keeping up to date with health and industrial issues provides a strong foundation for political advocacy.
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May 30, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
Enrolled nurse (EN) Jahnetta Tau was a delivery driver before being offered the chance to study nursing – thanks to a small workforce initiative aiming to turn the tables on health inequities. Tau, who has two young children, is one of 26 kaimahi who have signed up for an 18-month diploma in enrolled nursing, as part of a nursing workforce initiative funded by Te Whatu Ora.
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May 24, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
About 110 attendees at the annual EN section conference in Christchurch responded positively to the announcement on Tuesday, delivered by Te Kaunihera Tapuhi o Aotearoa — Nursing Council of New Zealand chief executive Catherine Byrne. “I think it’s very exciting, it’s going to open things right up,” said EN Jenny Lopes, who works in an aged-care facility in Palmerston North.
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May 18, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
“It’s quite disappointing.”Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) national student unit (NSU) co-chair and third year bachelor of nursing student Rebecca Dunn said students needed direct financial support such as earn-as-you-learn schemes, scrapping study fees, and paying for placements. “But there’s clearly nothing in there about that.”The Labour Government’s “no frills” Budget 2023 contained $4.8 billion in new spending, but little of this was on frontline health services.
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May 17, 2023 | 
kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh
Fortune trained as a nurse after having four of her own tamariki, and says her early, harmful experiences of health services as a Māori teen mother inspired her to pursue nursing. “I was young, I was Māori, I had too many kids, all of those things that I knew the average doctor who had their life together would be looking at me with, and going hmm, yeah.
