Three experts respond to DHB-NZNO industrial tension
Nursing academics Professor Jenny Carryer and Dr Helen Rook plus healthcare management researcher Dr Katherine Ravenswood provided expert comment to the Science Media Centre on this week’s strike vote and DHB nurses’ pay offer.
The benefits and barriers to nurses attending ward rounds
Why more nurses aren’t active participants in ward rounds raised questions for a group of nursing students. Here they share their literature review findings into the benefits and barriers to nurses attending ward rounds.
Announcement on PM nurses’ pay impasse proposal expected this week
Frustrated, wet and undervalued nurses are rallying nationwide in a campaign that the nurses’ union says will continue regardless of an expected announcement this week on the Prime Minister’s panel proposal.
Grim picture for DHB nurses reflected in high voter turnout
Voting closes today on the DHB pay offer with undervalued and stressed nurses turning out in high numbers to vote, says NZNO industrial services manager Cee Payne.
Nursing strikes and safe staffing: a brief history
Nursing Review editor Fiona Cassie looks at the historical context of why many nurses are reporting their patience is stretched – and their patients missing out – nearly 15 years on from requesting a safe staffing model and receiving their last pay “jolt”.
Nurses to march on parliament as social media campaign soars
A petition calling for safer staffing and better pay for nurses has taken off as the social media campaign #hearourvoices prepares to march on parliament on International Nurses Day.
The petition launched last night by...
Two strangers launch snowballing social media site for nurses
A new graduate and an enrolled nurse are the dedicated pair behind a social media forum - allowing Kiwi nurses to share their stories anonymously - that's reached 13,000 members in just five days. FIONA CASSIE reports.
Three NZ nursing schools make global top 100
For the first time, three New Zealand nursing schools have made the top 100 in a global university ranking survey.
Nurses’ voting options: accept revised pay offer or look to strike?
Whether a new pay offer by district health boards announced today meets nurses expectations or leads to industrial action will be voted on from next week.
DHBs considering making new nurse pay offer
Following mediation last week the district health boards are reviewing whether an increased pay offer can be made, reports the New Zealand Nurses Organisation.
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