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We've profiled some of our midwives and nurses to celebrate the International Day of the Midwife on 5 May, and International Nurses Day on 12 May.
Read about their roles and career highlights below.
Working in a rural hospital can either “make you or break you”, says Wairoa Hospital Nurse Manager Dione Neri.
The Wairoa born-and-bred Registered Nurse says working rurally…
It was the Puketapu community spirit that kept Rebecca Symonds going in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle.
The Emergency Department nurse of 17 years found herself at…
City Medical Nurse Manager Rowan Plater was instrumental in coordinating the medical hub for Napier residents cut off from the region’s hospital after Cyclone Gabrielle.
He’s been…
As a young girl Penny Rhodes knew she wanted to be a nurse.
The Nurse Manager at Te Mata Peak Practice has 28 years nursing under her…
Caring for the community drives Lisa Penberthy in her work as a Registered Nurse Prescriber at Totara Health.
“I love my job as we have a real…
Walk past Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner Sharon Payne on any given day and she can often be found making children smile in her Disney animated scrubs.
Her…
As a Russian-speaking immigrant, Victoria Zeyfert knows the difficulties that immigrants face settling in a new country.
Which is why the Nurse Practitioner at Te Mata Peak…
In the days after Cyclone Gabrielle devastated Esk Valley, health professionals came together and stood up an emergency clinic – without power and internet connection –…
Between juggling her Nurse Practitioner training, two jobs, mentoring Māori nurses and being a mum, Ani Tomoana is the first to say she doesn’t have much…
Jo Ward has two words to sum up her initial switch from hospital nursing in England to rural nursing in Central Hawke’s Bay: “Absolutely terrifying”.
But 11…
Napier midwife Julie Kinloch stuck a pen and paper to her front door to communicate with hāpu māmā after Cyclone Gabrielle wiped out communications in the region.
As…
Ko Whakapunake te maunga e marumaru nei e au
Ko Te Wairoa Hōpupu Hōnengenenge Mātangirau te awa e ora nei tōku wairua
Ko Ruataniwha te marae
Ko Ngai Te…
Improving cultural safety for Pacific and Asian whānau is a core driver for two Hawke’s Bay Hospital registered nurses’ decisions to study midwifery.
Balancing their Hawke’s Bay…
