Thank you to our Speakers
Jill Woodward - Mistress of Ceremonies
Jill is CEO of Elizabeth Knox Home & Hospital, Auckland New Zealand. For the past 28 years she has held a variety of management roles across the health environment including surgical services management and CEO Waipuna Hospice. Since 2008 has been CEO of Elizabeth Knox Home and Hospital where she has been responsible for the redevelopment of the site and for introducing the Eden Alternative. Jill is a Registered Nurse whose qualifications include a Master of Arts (Applied) in Nursing and Midwifery, Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences) and in 2009 she completed Eden Alternative training in Australia and is an Eden Alternative Trainer and Board Member.
Jill is an energetic advocate for the Eden Alternative, culture change and superb and enabling care environments.
“It is only when resident and registered nurse / care partner presence and leadership emerges across well designed care communities that authentic and sustainable culture change can and does occur”.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Brendan McCormack
Professor Brendan McCormack D.Phil (Oxon.), BSc (Hons.), FRCN, FEANS, FRCSI, PGCEA, RMN, RGN, FAAN, MAE
Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery (inc. Sydney Nursing School) & Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney.
Extraordinary Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Professor of Nursing, Maribor University, Slovenia; Visiting Professor, Ulster University; Adjunct Professor, Zealand University Hospital/University of Southern Denmark; Professor II, Østfold University College, Norway; Professor of Nursing, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
Brendan’s research focuses on person-centredness with a particular focus on the development of person-centred cultures, practices and processes. He has engaged in this work at all levels from theory development to implementation science and through to instrument design, testing and evaluation. He is methodologically diverse, but is most at home in participatory/action research. Whilst he has a particular expertise in gerontology and dementia practices, his work has spanned all specialties and is multi-professional. He also has a particular focus on the use of arts and creativity in healthcare research and development. Brendan has more than 600 published outputs, including 240 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and 12 books. Brendan is a Fellow of The European Academy of Nursing Science, Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In 2014 he was awarded the ‘International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame’ by Sigma Theta Tau International. Most recently, Brendan was featured in the Wiley Publishers ‘Inspiring Minds’ short films series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13c5C-tbcT4 In 2022 Brendan was selected as a member of The Academia Europaea.
NZNO President
Anne Daniels
Anne’s life began in Opotiki, Bay of Plenty. Her mother Jean was a nurse and encouraged Anne to consider the same career. At 18, Anne was accepted into the Thames Hospital nursing training programme and after completing training started work in the acute medical and coronary care unit. Practice nursing, nurse education, and leadership positions as a Clinical Charge Nurse in Outpatients and Emergency Nursing followed.
Early in her nursing journey Anne’s strong sense of justice led her to become an NZNO delegate, then Convenor for Thames Hospital/Hauraki Plains NZNO members, leading nurses through strikes and restructuring. She worked with the Thames Hospital Clinical Director, a local Councillor and the community to fight the reduction of many health services under the National Government. Throughout this time, Anne also successfully completed her Masters in Health Science (Hons) in 2005 which focused on why nurses were leaving the profession.
Supporting nurses (midwives/health care assistants), to take up nursing as a career and stay nursing in New Zealand, has been a lifelong commitment for Anne. Her commitment to nursing, was always in collaboration with NZNO in its many facets, including working on the Nurses and Midwifery Advisory Committee and the Nursing Research Group as a member, Conference Convenor then Chair.
Since moving to Dunedin Anne became an ED delegate in the Southern DHB. More recently she took up the role of Health and Safety Representative, and then joined the Regional Council, to continue the fight for fair pay and conditions in many campaigns over the last 11 years. Seeing and experiencing the incredible difference nurses make to the lives of the people they care for and the people nurses work with, has engendered an enduring respect for nurses in our communities. Anne believes it is this respect that will support NZNO members to stand together in strength to make the changes that need to happen now and in the future for nurses and nursing.
Dr Jessica Young
Dr Jessica Young is a Cancer Society post-doctoral fellow and senior research fellow at the School of Health, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
Jessica is also an appointed member of the Support and Consultation for End of Life NZ (SCENZ) Group.
Her expertise is in the sociology of health, illness, medicine and dying. Jessica is researching the experiences of people with life-limiting cancer who have declined hospice services and the experiences of people seeking assisted dying, their family and their attending medical practitioner. She started an assisted dying research network, funded by the Health Research Council. When Jessica returns from parental leave, she will be leading the first national study on assisted dying, funded by the Health Research Council.
Dr Frances Hughes
RN, BA, MA, DNurs, FNZCMHN, FAAN, JP, CNZM
Dr Frances Hughes is a known health executive and nurse leader nationally and internationally. She has worked with and for 18 governments and WHO. Her area of expertise is mental health, disability, aged care, and health public policy. Over the last three years through her role as Chair of NLG NZACA she was instrumental in aged care response to Covid. She finished her role as GGM for Oceania healthcare care end of March.
Julie Watson
Director at TAP IN Limited
Julie
is a cisgender, pansexual, parent and partner. After a
teaching career and two decades at the Human Rights Commission she worked
or Silver Rainbow and Rainbow Tick for seven years. She now runs her own
business called Tap In which entails education, facilitation, supervision and
performance appraisal. Julie is the conductor for Playback Theatre,
community improv and story telling, she likes to grow food and hang out with
her dog and cats.
Sarah Shaw
Sarah Shaw is a Senior Occupational Therapist and Project Specialist with Commissioning (Planning and Funding) with Te Whatu Ora – Waitaha (Canterbury) and Te Tai o Poutini (West Coast.
She has worked extensively in New Zealand and overseas working with patients in the community of all ages, disability and health needs assisting with rehabilitation, transfer of care, admission avoidance and coordinating equipment and support packages to facilitate care needs.
Sarah is going to present a case study, which will highlight some of the challenges our health system faces and the impact this has on our patients of size and those who care for them.
Liz Henderson
National Coordinator for Safer Walking
Land Search and Rescue
Liz Henderson works for New Zealand Land Search and
Rescue as the National
Coordinator for Safer Walking. With a background in disability
including the health sector, sport and emergency response, Liz is passionate
about methods that enable healthy and active lifestyles and promote safer
outcomes.
Kerri Nuku
Kerri has extensive background in the health sector as both a Registered Nurse and Midwife. She has been elected Kaiwhakahaere (co-leader) at Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa | New Zealand Nurses Organisation since 2013 representing 57,000 members.
Kerri’s knowledge and experience in the health sector includes nursing, midwifery, policy development, auditing, management, and governance and as a member of the ICN Audit and Risk Committee.
She is a strategist and thinker with governance experience and knowledge. Kerri has worked on the International Council of Nurses, Global Nurses United, and South Pacific Nurses Forum and the World Health Organisation (WHO), Human Resources for Health project.
Her advocacy for Workers’ Rights, specifically pay parity for the workforce within the Māori and Iwi Provider sector as evident in the Human Rights Commission report “A fair go for all”. As a collaborator in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, shadow report and the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
As an activist and published researcher, her national and international accomplishments have seen her present interventions at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019) protecting freedoms and right of indigenous peoples. She has led several legal challenges, the Kaupapa Health Services enquiry, Mana Wahine (Champion of women) claims and Oranga Tamariki (Ministry for Children) under urgency.
Kerri of Ngāti Kahungunu and Tainui descent was raised in Hawkes Bay, where she currently lives with her family (whānau) and still plays an active role in her community.
Suzanne Rolls
RN, MN.
Professional Nursing Adviser
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa
New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Suzanne Rolls is the Professional Nursing Adviser to the College of Emergency Nurses, the Perioperative Nurses College of NZNO and the Enrolled Nurse Section of NZNO. This role enhances NZNO members’ professional aspirations and advocates for improved systems. Suzanne works locally with nurses in two regions: Wellington and Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough. Suzanne is intensely interested in ensuring environments nurses practice in enhance nursing care and patient outcomes. Suzanne’s clinical background was in emergency nursing, critical care and general medicine. Suzanne has completed a thesis titled “Exploring workplace violence in the Emergency Department: Are emergency nurses safe?”.
As a professional nursing adviser, Suzanne provides strategic leadership to groups of members and professional advice to individual members. This includes guiding the enrolled, perioperative and emergency nurses’ groups to influence Aotearoa health system. Suzanne represents nurses on the Enrolled Nurse Scope of Practice design group in collaboration with Nursing Council of New Zealand. Suzanne regularly represents NZNO in discussions with government agencies and external stakeholders on behalf of members. Suzanne led the NZNO addressing violence against nurses project 2019-2022.
Margaret Bigsby
RN, RM, MPhil.
Professional Nursing Adviser
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa
New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Marg Bigsby is the Professional Nursing Adviser to the College of Child and Youth Nurses of NZNO and to the Gerontology College of Nursing NZNO. Marg’s clinical background was in midwifery and in maternal and child health nursing. Marg works locally with nurses in two regions: in Canterbury/Waitaha and in South Canterbury.
As a professional nursing adviser, Marg also provides strategic leadership to groups of members and professional advice to individual members. Marg has also represented NZNO in discussions with government agencies and external stakeholders on behalf of members. This has included writing NZNO’s submission on Mandatory Minimum staffing in Aged Care to Parliamentary Health select committee and later joining the delegation accompanying College Chair Natalie Seymour when Natalie made an oral presentation to members of parliament. Marg also joined NZNO members in Acute Inpatient Services in Waitaha on a year-long project to reduce violent and aggression. Marg was a member of NZNO’s addressing violence against nurses project 2019-2022 that Suzanne led.
Rachel McAlpine
Rachel McAlpine is a New Zealand writer. Her many published books include poetry, novels, plays, and books about writing, especially writing for the Web. She blogs, swims, sings in a choir and dances with the Crows Feet Dance Collective. Her latest book of poems, “How To Be Old” treats an almost-taboo topic with humour, warmth, and honesty. In November her play “The Secret Lives of Extremely Old People” opens at Circa Theatre, Wellington. At 83, her mission is to make others feel more positive about their future old age.
Fiona Bentley
Fiona Bentley is a Registered Nurse and Clinical Specialist for Smith + Nephew.
Come and see how you can support your community by improving your team’s knowledge and skills in advanced wound care with a focus on skin integrity including skin tears and incontinence associated dermatitis (IAD).
Understand how to tell the difference between IAD and a sacral pressure injury.
Fiona Graham
I have been a Registered Nurses for thirty one years both in the UK and NZ. My background is surgical nursing, older persons health and education. I am passionate about delirium prevention advocating for a multi-professional / multi-modal approach.
Celeita Williams