Half of nursing graduates miss out on job offer from Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora

By RNZ Graduates who have missed out on nursing jobs are now looking at heading overseas, even though that’s not what they want, a union member says. She is in a group representing nursing students who say national health agency Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has failed in its most basic duty to plan for the future nursing workforce. It comes after Health NZ offered just 844 of 1619 graduate nurses jobs on Wednesday, with 775 missing out.

Student nurse and New Zealand Nurses Organisation student unit co-chair Bianca Anderson told RNZ’s Morning Report it was hard to comprehend..