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NZNO Mental Health Nurses Section Newsletter – June 2023

Touching a nerve The vexed issues of violence in Mental Health Inpatient Units – and responses to it – have been in the spotlight this month. An NZNO media release, requested by the Mental Health Nurses Section to highlight the ongoing problem of assaults on Nurses, attracted widespread attention – with coverage by RNZ (hereContinue reading “NZNO Mental Health Nurses Section Newsletter – June 2023”

Book review: ‘Women Will Rise! – Recalling the Working Women’s Charter’, edited by Gay Simpkin & Marie Russell

The Working Women’s Charter was a manifesto which united feminists in Aotearoa to achieve major victories in the 1970s and early 1980s. Although it was just 17 sentences long, the campaign to have it adopted as policy in 1980 by the Federation of Labour (predecessor of today’s Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi), andContinue reading “Book review: ‘Women Will Rise! – Recalling the Working Women’s Charter’, edited by Gay Simpkin & Marie Russell”

NZNO Mental Health Nurses Section Newsletter – December 2022

So this is Christmas, and what have we done? What have we done? Let’s try to summarise it. 2022 has been an incredibly demanding year for Mental Health Nurses. Just last month, Newshub told us what we already knew – that despite the ever-increasing demand on services and a $1.9 billion funding injection in Budget 2019, thereContinue reading “NZNO Mental Health Nurses Section Newsletter – December 2022”

Academia, activism and nursing – the key drivers for Grant Brookes

BY CATE MACINTOSH*December 8, 2022 An unexpected period of living rough while on his OE, gave Grant Brookes a taste of “how the other half lives” and deepened his drive to advocate for human rights. As part of a series on the NZNO board directors, Brookes spoke to Kaitiaki about his story. Caring for his Scottish grandmotherContinue reading “Academia, activism and nursing – the key drivers for Grant Brookes”

The NZNO election result

Statement from NursesUnited Te Kāhui Tāwharau The results of the NZNO election have been released by the Returning Officer. Lizzy, Grant and Saju would like to thank everyone who participated. We have appreciated all the kōrero people have shared with us during the election campaign, which enabled us to gain greater insights into the issuesContinue reading “The NZNO election result”