Nursing

The aged care sector says it has been ignored in the Budget just as it struggles on the brink of collapse 

Budget 2022: Nurses working in general practice and for iwi and Māori providers will be “devastated” and  continue to feel undervalued after yesterday’s Budget, say nurse leaders 

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) is profoundly disappointed with the Budget announced this afternoon in which nurses barely get a mention

Nurse practitioner frustration with prescribing and funding issues were acknowledged, but no quick answers were offered in chief nursing officer Lorraine Hetaraka’s address to their national conference this morning 

An historic pay equity settlement, the first under the new Equal Pay Act, has been overwhelmingly approved by DHB administration and clerical workers

The Ministry of Health was working on an amendment to the COVID vaccination order before a recent case involving an ICU nurse who was stood down while trying to gain an exemption from vaccination 

New data presented by health analytics company Matui Ltd, using Ministry of Health Pharmaceutical Collection data, shows that medicines dispensed from nurse prescriptions grew 68% from 83,400 in 2019 to 1.4 million by 2021

Barbara Docherty remembers the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, whose birthday is celebrated today, International Nurses Day 

Whānau Āwhina Plunket and Family Planning New Zealand call on Immigration Minister to reconsider fast-tracked residence pathway

It’s the Government’s Budget month, and the latest quarterly inflation figure is the highest it has been in more than three decades