WE INVITE nurses to look out for email invitations this month from Smokefree Nurses
Aotearoa, inviting them to participate in a 10-minute research study on nurses' smoking cessation practices.
OUR HEALTH, Our Right: Kia Rangatira te Tu is the theme of this year's Indigenous Nurses
Aotearoa Conference in Tamaki-makau-rau, Auckland.
THE FIRST-EVER Smokefree Nurses' symposium was held in Auckland last month, attended by around 50 nurses, all committed to achieving a smokefree
Aotearoa by 2025.
LAST MONTH, I attended the first-ever Smokefree Nurses
Aotearoa New Zealand Symposium in Auckland.
Hinerangi Mohi was the nursing student nursing educator Irihapeti Ramsden quoted in the introduction to her 2002 PhD thesis Cultural safety and nursing education in
Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu.
The theme for Tonga Language Week is "Fakakoloa 'o
Aotearoa 'aki 'a e Tauhi Fonua", or, in English, "a Tongan Perspective of Enriching
Aotearoa, New Zealand".
Matariki, the Maori new year, was recently celebrated around
Aotearoa. Matariki is the name of the cluster of seven stars (also known as the Pleiades) which rise above the horizon in the month of Pipiri (June-July).