Articles from Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (July 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Aged-care workers struggle to pay fees.	Baird, Pauline	Letter to the Editor	390
Award for healthy housing project.			227
Ballot for MECA underway.			376
Boosting numbers in aged care.	Mulrine, Lynley	Brief Article	289
Connecting with Maori nurses: last month's PAUA hui helped form bonds between Maori nurses working in Canterbury DHB and the community, and raised the profile of NZNO.	Manchester, Anne		902
Creating a real future for primary health care nursing: although the Government's primary health care strategy has created a more positive environment for nursing, many challenges still remain to establishing effective, appropriately resourced primary health care nursing services.	Millar, Chris		862
EN faces belittling attitudes.	Stanford, Joan	Letter to the Editor	95
English primary health care expert appointed chief adviser at Ministry.			710
Enrolled Nurses celebrate special day.			118
Extending the role of practice nurse: extending the role of practice nurses to manage patients with chronic conditions, and providing an opportunity to develop nurse practitioners within the community are two aims of a pilot project getting underway in Auckland.	O'Connor, Teresa		934
Filipino nurses frightened to speak out.		Letter to the Editor	657
Filipino nurses glad their stories are now public: since Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand revealed the exploitation of Filipino nurses here by some immigration agents and employers, the Philippine Nurses' Society has heard of many similar stories. Television New Zealand carried a story on the subject. But coming to New Zealand is not always a negative experience.	O'Connor, Teresa		1996
Getting the health system we deserve: nurses and other health workers have an ethical responsibility to vote in the upcoming general election. They are in a unique position to ascertain the impact of different political parties' health policies on those they care for and that's why they must participate in the election.	Asher, Joy Bickley		1980
How the parties' policies stack up: NZNO policy staff have analysed and evaluated how political parties' policies compare with NZNO's key policy objectives for this election and the policy objectives NZNO set for the in-coming government in 2002.			914
How to regulate nursing? Professional self regulation is being challenged by many factors within and outside nursing. At an international conference on regulation, held before the recent International Council of Nurses' Congress in Taiwan, NZNO's chief executive put the case for a new model of professional regulation, which draws on nursing's innate strengths and, in turn, strengthens the profession.	Annals, Geoff		1628
ICN innovation database.			115
Life of pioneering trade unionist Sonja Davies honoured.			340
Make poverty history campaign launched in New Zealand.			212
Making an informed voting choice: as the general election approaches, NZNO has ten key policy objectives for the health workforce and to improve the health of all New Zealanders. And one of its priorities is to ensure members have the information needed to make an informed voting choice.	Brown, Eileen		888
MECA working parties make progress: the work of three of the working parties, set up after the public sector multi-employer collective agreement, is coming to an end.	Alexander, Glenda		897
National's seven deadly promises: nurses and other health workers face a stark choice this election--a coalition government with an industrial agenda generally supportive of workers, or a coalition government which will strip away all protections for workers, leaving the vulnerable most at risk.	Harre, Laila		1388
Nominations for the nursing and midwifery advisory committee.			2370
Nurse practitioners gather in Palmerston North.	Snell, Helen		193
Nurses assist workplace smoking cessation.			257
Nurses' appearance unprofessional.	Barnes, Tess	Letter to the Editor	145
Nursing leaders need to walk their talk.	Smith, Sue	Letter to the Editor	476
NZNO celebrates Matariki.		Brief Article	316
NZNO objects to ACC's treatment payments.		Brief Article	263
NZNO staff changes.		Brief Article	108
On the hunt for a 1950s' poem.	Gleeson, Peter	Letter to the Editor	223
Other wartime nurses remembered.	Lawrence, Jan	Letter to the Editor	223
Perioperative Nurses promise to scale new heights at annual conference.	McClelland, Diane		366
Political parties respond to NZNO's policy objectives: The following are selected excerpts from each party's responses to NZNO's ten policy objectives. We believe they best represent the comments received. Some have been slightly reworded to clarify meaning.			2103
Pondering the place of women in an election year.	O'Connor, Teresa		938
Primary health organization plan to expland role of nurses.			436
Primary health workers honoured.		Brief Article	310
Profiling NZNO's election 2005 candidates.			1575
Profiling Te Runanga chair and vice chair nominations.			1014
Recognition for diabetes nurses.			189
Research shows Hubba campaign a success.			310
Section reports growing interest in mental health nurses' issues.	Moke, Karen		274
Standing as national college/section representatives on the Board of Directors.			746
Stop press--Harre resigns.		Brief Article	124
Strategic plan endorsed.	Minto, Rosemary		175
Strong spirit of collectivism at regional conventions.		Brief Article	263
Student disillusioned with degree course.		Letter to the Editor	237
The president comments ...			752
Three New Zealand nurses become a small part of healing in Banda Aceh: running children's clinics, teaching basic hygiene and organising training programmes for teachers were just some of the activities three volunteer New Zealand nurses undertook in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, following the tsunami.	Cooke, Ruth		1890
Unsafe staffing major concern for DHB members.	Alexander, Glenda		448
US visitors stimulate interest in nurse-managed health centres.			802
Women's issues must be core union business.			287
Workplace health and safety strategy launched.			208