New Zealand nurses consider new wages after strike, working hours health news
Wellington, New Zealand – In Lisa ’s 25 years as a health care assistant, the understaffed situation will only get worse.
Her typical day includes changing the patients’ dirty sheets, cleaning their trash, escorting them in and out of the bathroom, helping them exercise, feeding, walking, and washing them.
“You can’t complete patient care because you don’t have enough staff,” Lisa told Al Jazeera. “It means you feel that you have failed people, which is not fair to them or us.”
For years trying to arrange 10-hour work in 8-hour shifts, Lisa is tired of it. She is one of more than 30,000 nurses, midwives and medical assistants working at the New Zealand District Health Board (DHB). The final year of negotiating with the government to improve salaries and working conditions.
Monday, 19 April 2021, 1:37 pm
Registered charity, Evidence Based Eating New Zealand has
announced plans to present a series of health lectures in
four of New Zealand s main centres this year.
Titled,
The Whole Food Solution, the series involves up to 12
speakers and commences at Christchurch s University of Otago
on May 22. It will be MC d by EBE NZ chairperson and film
maker, Grant Dixon, producer of the documentary,
The Big
FAT Lie.
Successive presentations will occur at
Dunedin in August, Auckland in September and will conclude
in the Grand Hall at Parliament in October.
The series
will be opened by Julia Rucklidge, Professor of Psychology
Press Release – Evidence Based Eating NZ
Registered charity, Evidence Based Eating New Zealand has announced plans to present a series of health lectures in four of New Zealand’s main centres this year.
Titled, The Whole Food Solution, the series involves up to 12 speakers and commences at Christchurch’s University of Otago on May 22. It will be MC’d by EBE NZ chairperson and film maker, Grant Dixon, producer of the documentary,
The Big FAT Lie.
Successive presentations will occur at Dunedin in August, Auckland in September and will conclude in the Grand Hall at Parliament in October.
The series will be opened by Julia Rucklidge, Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury. Following lectures will include Professor Jim Mann, Dr Mike Joy and Professor Boyd Swinburn. All other presenters are either university lecturers, practising or training New Zealand GPs.