Entries for September 2010

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) recently passed a remit to support the removal of GST from healthy food. “One of NZNO’s strategic aims is to oppose injustice and inequality wherever it impacts on the health and well-being of New Zealanders. Removing GST from healthy food would certainly ...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is encouraging its members to vote for nurses who are standing for election to district health boards (DHB). President Nano Tunnicliff says nurses are the frontline health professionals with the greatest knowledge of patients’ needs and with the best under...

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Hundreds of people have expressed their concern that proposed changes to sick leave provisions will impact on children’s health and welfare, as well as workers’ rights. The Holidays Amendment Bill will allow employers to require staff to provide a medical certificate after just one day’s sick leave...

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A former president of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and current member of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board and the National Health Board, Marion Guy, has been awarded NZNO’s top honour. Guy, a long-time practice nurse and emergency department nurse at Tauranga Hospital, served a...

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Janice Wenn, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Ngāti Moe, Ngāti Hinewaka is the latest recipient of Te Runanga o Aotearoa NZNO’s prestigious Akenehi Hei Award. The award is for a significant contribution to Māori health. A nurse with a long career in nursing, nursing management, cultural safety and hauo...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is deeply concerned about the absence of aged-care workers’ or residents’ perspectives in a major report on residential aged-care services, released yesterday. “The Aged Residential Care Service Review is being hailed as a collaborative approach by the sec...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) believe the government’s proposed changes to sick leave will affect children’s health and welfare, as well as workers’ rights. The two organisations have joined forces to oppose the legislation, introduced t...

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