Achievements of four-year term highlighted.In the Hester Maclean Oration, the traditional speech of the outgoing president An outgoing president is a president or, generally, other head of state or government when he holds office between the election of his successor and the inauguration by which that successor assumes power. , Jane O'Malley outlined some of the highlights of the life and work of that pioneering nurse leader. O'Malley mused on how NZNO NZNO New Zealand Nurses Organisation today would measure up against the national nursing association formed in 1909 and wondered what Hester Maclean's priorities would have been. She believed they would have included recruitment and retention, nursing leadership and the image of nursing. O'Malley went on to highlight some of the achievements of the last four years. These included the success of the Fair Pay Campaign; NZNO's first safe staffing conference, attended by internationally renowned nurse researcher See also
tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves 1. To cover with a pavement. 2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. 3. To be or compose the pavement of. the way for the current committee of inquiry into safe staffing; and NZNO's role in international relationships, particularly in the Pacific. Referring to the relationship with Te Runanga o Aotearoa NZNO, O'Malley said the Te Runanga chair when she became president, Sharon Morunga, had been her early teacher and challenged some of her thinking around Te Runanga's development. She thanked Te Runanga for the wonderful opportunity to experience the best of tikinga Maori. She was proud of what the board of directors had achieved and thanked NZNO staff for their "welcoming and sharing" when she began as president. Describing chief executive Geoff Annals an·nals pl.n. 1. A chronological record of the events of successive years. 2. A descriptive account or record; a history: "the short and simple annals of the poor" as a "dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human from a vicious public health system", she thanked him for his leadership, support and "tremendous contribution to the organisation". Welcoming new president Marion Guy to the role, O'Malley said her clinical experience and knowledge of NZNO meant O'Malley felt she was leaving the organisation in good hands. As she handed Guy the chain of office, delegates gave O'Malley a standing ovation as staff and delegates sang the working women's anthem Bread and Roses. |
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