12 Nurses find first DHB collective agreement offer completely unacceptable New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 12 April 2021 The nearly 30,000 district health board (DHB) members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) have received the first DHB offer in their multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) negotiations, which began in June last year.... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Industrial Action, Safe Staffing, Nursing Shortages, Patient Safety
18 Service to Nursing Award 2020 goes to patient rights advocate New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 18 September 2020 Each year the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) presents Service to Nursing and Midwifery Awards as a way of recognising nurses or midwives who are NZNO members and who have made a positive difference to nursing or... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Patient Safety
27 De-valuing of nursing deeply worrying New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 27 August 2020 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s (NZNO’s) College of Emergency Nurses (CENNZ) says the de-valuing of the nursing role evident in recent moves by the Canterbury DHB (CDHB) are deeply worrying, and that all New... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Safe Staffing, Nursing Shortages, Health Funding, Patient Safety
13 Serious lessons from Waitakere Hospital COVID-19 report New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 13 May 2020 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says it welcomes the incident review report released today by Waitematā District Health Board (DHB) into COVID-19 Staff infections at Waitakere Hospital during April. Seven nurses... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Safe Staffing, Patient Safety
7 Employer and employee rights and obligations during a pandemic New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 7 February 2020 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is reminding both employers and employees that they have rights and obligations regarding their own safety and the wellbeing of others during a pandemic situation. NZNO Associate... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Public Health, Safe Staffing, Patient Safety
26 Adverse events report reveals heavily under-resourced health system New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 26 November 2019 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes Learning from adverse events: Te ako I ngā pāpono kōaro, released by the Health & Safety Commission last week. However, NZNO Professional Nursing Adviser Kate Weston says... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Safe Staffing, Nursing Shortages, Health Funding, Patient Safety, Health Policy
26 Middlemore so understaffed it may need to call on army New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 26 July 2019 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says an emerging crisis at Middlemore Hospital demonstrates the serious problems district health boards (DHBs) are facing in recruiting and retaining nurses. On Tuesday ambulances to... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Safe Staffing, Nursing Shortages, Patient Safety
7 NZNO demands DHB response on systemic weaknesses compromising health and safety New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 7 June 2019 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has written an urgent letter to the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) saying difficult working conditions faced by nurses are seriously compromising both staff and patient... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Safe Staffing, Nursing Shortages, Patient Safety
12 Summit calls for aged care staffing review after ‘shocking’ research report New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 12 March 2019 EMBARGOED UNTIL 1PM, 13 MARCH 2019 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation and E tū are holding a summit in Wellington today (13 March) calling for a review of staffing standards for residential aged care – and for new and... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Aged Care, Safe Staffing, Patient Safety
15 Resident doctors deserve much better says NZNO New Zealand Nurses Organisation media release, 14 January 2019 The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) supports the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) in its industrial dispute with District Health Boards (DHBs) and warns that unsafe working conditions imposed on resident... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Patient Safety
2 Nurses unfairly blamed for systemic failures 1 August 2013: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is extremely disappointed and disturbed that Rymans is publically blaming nurses for failure of care in their Malvina Major facility in Wellington. NZNO industrial advisor for the aged care sector, David Wait says “All NZNO members will... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Aged Care, Public Health, Patient Safety
26 Doing more with less doesn’t cut it when patient care is at stake 26 November 2012: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says that extensive discussion between unions and Waikato DHB has failed to reassure nurses and allied health staff that their work is taken seriously by the DHB. The DHB is proposing to cut eight staff at a specialist rehabilitation... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Patient Safety
23 “Making our hospitals safer” report shows areas for improvement and innovation 22 November 2012: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the 2011/12 Serious and Sentinel events report “Making our hospitals safer”. The report contains the serious adverse events that have happened in hospitals over the past year. This year’s report shows that the largest... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: NZNO News, Nursing Shortages, Patient Safety