Thursday, 6 May 2021, 5:29 pm
NZNO says health care workers across Aotearoa New Zealand
are extremely disappointed following the government’s pay
freeze announcement.
Despite being on the frontline
for COVID-19, Nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants and
kaimahi hauora employed by District Health Boards (DHB)
could all be affected by the announcement.
NZNO
Industrial Services Manager Glenda Alexander says she is
seriously concerned about the impact of the policy on NZNO s
work to resolve gender pay issues within nursing and
midwifery. This announcement could set back our
efforts to resolve the longstanding undervaluation of our
members’ work, especially regarding pay rates for
nurses.
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Non-clinical kaimahi working at Māori health providers are being trained to administer vaccines because.
Nurses Organisation Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says successive governments have failed to train enough Māori health professionals, leading to a massive shortage across the sector.
Nurses train for years to become registered and earn their regular annual certificate while non-clinical workers are only trained to carry out one task. As healthcare professionals we are trained in what if there is as anaphylactic shock, how do you look at the whole clinical assessment, not just do these one-off task activities. We need to make sure there is protection in lace for these unregulated staff, she says.
Monday, 12 April 2021, 10:39 am
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 last year. In a survey of
the affected membership the overwhelming feedback was that
this offer would be rejected out of hand.
These
nurses, midwives, health care assistants (HCAs) and kaimahi
hauora say the offer fails to recognise the tremendous
workload and highly pressurised working conditions they
endure and will do nothing to address the DHB staffing
crisis that puts themselves and patients in
peril.
Lead Advocate and NZNO Industrial Advisor David
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