New members and visitors always welcome!
For more information on any of the events below see the events calendar or contact Regional Administrator Tina West on 07 834 2392 or tinaw@nzno.org.nz.
2018 Bay of Plenty/Tairawhiti and Midlands Regional Convention
Save the date! More details coming soon.
Date: Thursday 24 May 2018
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Venue: Easgle Ridge, 1004 Ohauiti Road, RD 3, Tauranga
For more information email Tina West on tinaw@nzno.org.nz or Paul Mathews on paulm@nzno.org.nz
Bay of Plenty/Tairawhiti Regional Council Meetings
Dates: All Wednesdays - 22 February, 19 April (AGM), 21 June, 23 August, 19 October and 29 November (Budget and Christmas meeting) 2017.
Time: 5.30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Training Room, NZNO Tauranga Office, 141 Cameron Road, Tauranga
Venue for the Xmas meeting: will be advised later
Join Chairperson Val Scott and Secretary Helen Tuck for meal (subsidised) and meeting.
Presentations from the 2017 BOP, Midlands and Tairawhiti Regional Convention
Nursing at the forefront, transforming care - Building productive workplaces
The Convention was held on Thursday 27 April 2017 at the Hamilton Airport Hotel and Conference Centre in Hamilton.
- Dealing with workplace change - Sonya Saunders Associated Director of Student Success at Waikato University (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Skills and knowledge needed in a productive workplace - Dr Maureen Marra Organisational Development Specialist (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Navigating workplace relationships - Annie Bradley-Ingle PNA and Betha Weir NZNO Educator (coming soon)
- Positive practice environments for nursing teams - Annie Bradley-Ingle PNA and Hilary Graham-Smith (PDF, 1MB)
The 'Positive practice environments for nursing teams' presentation outlined the importance of Positive working environments and explained what they look like. It broadly addressed the nursing profession's influence on positive work environments via relevant Laws and Regulations and Professional Codes.
It highlighted how individual nurses, nursing teams, managers and organisations measures help create and maintain positive working environments, and included information about unhealthy workplace relationships (better known as bullying) which led on to the workshops that followed.