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Days away from giving birth after a high-risk pregnancy, Kiki Van Newtown has experienced first-hand the dire state of our maternal health services. She’s calling on the government to take urgent action.
It’s late on the maternity ward at Wellington Hospital, and I’m curled onto a couch at the end of a dark hallway, trying to figure out a way to explain why every person having a baby, and every baby born, deserves to have the very best support that society can provide. The words aren’t coming even remotely easily, and I’m realising that this feels like begging for scraps. That it doesn’t matter how poetic or visionary my writing is, that appealing to our government to pull us out of the current maternity crisis is not a new call – this crisis has been decades in the making. No amount of hopeful euphemisms or metaphors are going to save us.
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 10:22 am
It will come as no surprise to hear that New
Zealand has a shortage of nurses, with a particular need for
nurses of Māori and Pacific descent.
In
efforts to bolster these numbers, Whitireia is the only
institution in the Wellington region to offer a New
Zealand Diploma in Enrolled Nursing - and good news has
come that the Government is providing funding for this
diploma, which now falls into the ‘free
trades training’ category.
Enrolled Nursing is
an accessible way to become a nurse for those with NCEA
Level 2, and is an 18 month programme which includes six
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Source: Whitireia
It will come as no surprise to hear that New Zealand has a shortage of nurses, with a particular need for nurses of MÄori and Pacific descent.
In efforts to bolster these numbers, Whitireia is the only institution in the Wellington region to offer a New Zealand Diploma in Enrolled Nursing â and good news has come that the Government is providing funding for this diploma, which now falls into the âfree trades trainingâ category.Â
Enrolled Nursing is an accessible way to become a nurse for those with NCEA Level 2, and is an 18 month programme which includes six months of hands-on clinical work.Â