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The views of graduate nurses on whether postgraduate study in your new graduate year adds or takes away from the experience are being sought in an online survey.

More than 1200 nurses who signed up to work for at least three years in a hard to staff specialty or community have now received voluntary bonding payments.

The employment rate for November graduates from the country's nursing schools varied from around half to 94 per cent, according to the latest survey findings.

The number of new nurses being employed by rest homes and aged care hospitals through mentored new graduate programmes has fallen this year, despite keen applicants still job-hunting.

Once again around 60 per cent of new nurses have gained a graduate placement by March, leaving 551 still job-hunting. The latest job statistics also provides a region-by-region breakdown of which areas are employing the greatest proportion of new graduates.

A special nursing poem on valuing the time of elderly patients – launched last week at England's Chief Nursing Officer's annual summit – has a Kiwi connection.

The nurses' union NZNO is once again calling for guaranteed places for all nursing graduates on hearing that nearly half missed out on graduate nursing placements in the latest job round.

Job offers for new graduate nurses were back up slightly after plateauing last year but around 650 nurses will once again start the summer job-hunting. 

The number of Kiwi nurses seeking to work across the Tasman is up again this year after dropping to a new low last year.

A pilot to boost Māori nurse numbers in primary health care is underway in South Auckland with four graduates employed and a New Year intake to follow.

A once "rebellious" teenage mum and now passionate convert to rural outreach nursing says she is humbled to be the joint winner of the Young Nurse of the Year Award.

Recent nurse graduate ROSALIE DAVIS shares a poignant nursing and life lesson she learnt from a wise healthcare assistant and a frail dementia patient.

Just over half of the applicants for new graduate nursing jobs in the July round were successful but 47 per cent missed out. 

A 'technical glitch' saw hundreds of new graduate nurses have their job hopes raised then dashed yesterday after an incorrect email was sent out to unsuccessful job applicants.

A survey confirming rest homes are employing high numbers of new graduates with no guaranteed mentoring is an "ongoing concern", says the nurses union NZNO.

The number of new graduate nurses in work is down on the same time last year at just under 74%, according to the latest graduate survey findings.

The first year of nursing can be a challenging initiation to the realities of the profession. Rosalie Davis spoke at the graduation of her NETP (Nursing Entry to Training Programme) year on the ups and downs of that journey. Her honest and touching speech is shared here.

The summer is ending with 852 new graduate nurses in work but 547 remain in the talent pool still hoping for a new graduate placement.

Just under half of new graduate nurses are starting the summer job-hunting after job numbers plateaued and slightly fell in the latest job match round. More than 1450 graduates initially applied through the ACE clearing house for a place in a New Year intake and 735 (51%) were known to be employed by the time they sat their state final exams in mid-November.

Some of the country's largest hospitals are increasing their New Year intakes of new graduate nurses but another, Hutt Hospital, has cancelled its usual February intake.

A 26-year-old nurse whose working day can range from treating glacier accident victims to running mother and baby groups has won the 2015 NZNO Young Nurse of the Year award.

More new graduate nurses got jobs this July than in the past two years but still more than half of applicants missed out.

Around 80 per cent of new graduate nurses were nursing within four months of graduation, according to the latest statistics.

More than 250 new graduate nurses have been struggling to find work in practice areas that remain open to migrant nurses.

Auckland's three district health boards have between them employed 29 per cent of the country's next generation of nurses.

More graduate nurses have gained new graduate positions than this time last year – but bumper application numbers means 570 would-be nurses are still job hunting. 

Nursing has dropped a notch from being a 'good' job prospect to a 'fair' one in the latest Occupation Outlook report released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

The number of new graduate nurse jobs has stayed static at around 900 for the third year running despite the number of nursing graduates growing 25 per cent in the same time period.

The number of new graduate nurses placed in work through the “one-stop job shop” has risen to 777 by late February, according to the latest Ministry of Health statistics.

Despite the ‘rock star economy’ the job market for new grad nurses is tougher than ever with more applicants and less jobs than the same time last year.

New nurses working in surgical wards will no longer be eligible for the voluntary bond scheme.

Nearly half of the about 500 new nurses that graduated in July 2013 were still jobhunting in November, Ministry of Health statistics show.

A last minute boost to the new scholarship funding has seen 13 practices serving high need South Auckland communities take on new graduate nurses.

Concern about new nurses struggling to find work has prompted a review on whether New Zealand’s doors should still be wide open for overseas nurses.

Concern about unemployed young Kiwi doctors is prompting the government to consider dropping GPs and junior doctors off the essential skills migrant list.

The number of Kiwi nurses seeking to cross the Tasman has dropped sharply by about a third and is at the lowest level for about a decade.

Six months since graduating nearly 230 new nurses are still job hunting and have signed up for a second chance to win a place in a new graduate programme.

How many of the bumper crop of new nurses are still job-hunting will be much clearer next week.

The number of new nurses graduating is 33 per cent higher than five years ago and there is still no reliable tool for forecasting whether cohorts are still growing.

A review to consider closing New Zealand doors to overseas nurses  – because of homegrown new graduates struggling to find work  – has come out against taking that step.

Just over 670 new graduate nurses – about 45 per cent of the original applicants for new graduate positions – are still job-hunting, according to an interim Ministry of Health update.

More new graduate nurses offered jobs this November than the previous two years - but still nearly half of applicants will start the summer job-hunting.

New graduate nurses recruited into the New Zealand Defence Force will be for the first time working alongside "civilian" new grads in hospital wards.

The "extremely slow" progress by Health Workforce New Zealand in responding to the fast looming nursing shortage has been criticised by nursing union NZNO.

Fewer unemployed new nurses than expected have taken up the chance to apply to be third time lucky in getting a new graduate position.

More than 1480 new nurses have applied for new graduate positions – up on last year – but jobs also appear to be on the rise.

The growing demand for nursing school places in recent years has largely plateaued in the cities and fallen in some provincial areas, according to an informal survey of nursing schools.

About 730 new graduates have successfully found places on state-subsidised new graduate programmes but the job-hunting success of the other 500 plus new nurses remains unknown.

Nursing director LORRAINE HETARAKA-STEVENS calls for innovative and courageous strategies to recruit more new graduate nurses, including under-represented Māori, into the ageing primary health nurse workforce.

How does a young nurse’s income stack up against those of his or her peers who become teachers or lawyers? Do we lose more young nurses overseas than other professions? Why does the average income of nurse graduates plateau and fall after five years? FIONA CASSIE reports on two Ministry of Education studies about young graduates’ incomes and destinations.

Ten years after introduction, nursing entry to practice (NETP) programmes are now seen as the established norm but demand for places outstrips jobs available. FIONA CASSIE reflects on a decade of NETP and talks to nurses about the very first NETP intakes.

The Nursing Council of New Zealand recently released the latest report in its Nursing Cohort longitudinal study, which includes an update on the number of nurses registered in the 2005/06 year who are still nursing in New Zealand. While the numbers, including new data on nurses first registered in 2012/13, are worryingly low, it’s not all doom and gloom. FIONA CASSIE reports.

Follow a day in the life of recent graduate nurses Courtney Fermanis from early morning crossfit to door-knocking as an outreach immunisation nurse for her iwi.

Catch them young. Waikato DHB last year launched a leadership programme for high-flying nurses who stood out in their new graduate year. Some are now moving on to do their PhDs and other DHBs are adopting the model. FIONA CASSIE finds out more about the unabashedly “elitist” programme.

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The number of new graduate nurse jobs has stayed static at around 900 for the third year running, despite the number of nursing graduates growing 25 per cent in the same time period.

JUDY SECCOMBE looks at nursing attitude to those who are ‘different’ and challenges kiwi nurses to be more welcoming to new colleagues from different ethnicities, cultures, or countries.

The number of new graduate nurses placed in work through the “one-stop job shop” has risen to 777 by late February, according to the latest Ministry of Health statistics.

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The cost savings of replacing retiring nurses with new graduates is being pointed out to district health boards (DHBs) by the Chief Nurse’s Office.

18 months on, FIONA CASSIE checks up on Taranaki’s radical new ‘hands-on’ nursing degrees to see how the ‘modern apprenticeship’ is bedding in.

About 75 per cent of new graduates had nursing jobs by March down on last year’s 85 per cent employment rate, according to the latest graduate survey.

Des Gorman, chair of Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ), says that he’s losing sleep worrying about the looming nursing shortfall. FIONA CASSIE talks to him about his disappointment at last year’s nursing criticism of HWNZ’s performance and why nursing will be a top priority in 2013.

Most young nurses are passionate about their career choice ­ for now, at least. As many feel little long-term loyalty to a profession that leaves them feeling tired, stressed, and underappreciated, FIONA CASSIE talks to researcher Dr Isabel Jamieson about the workforce implications of her survey of more than 350 Generation Y nurses.

Extra support is to be offered to 24 new graduates entering the aged care workforce in 2013 in the trial of a new style graduate programme.

To date, only 31 per cent of nurses and 22 per cent of doctors signed up three years ago to the "popular" voluntary bonding scheme have stepped forward to claim payouts.

We employ clinical coaches as part of our Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP) programme that was first established back in 2004.

National nursing organisations are backing a consensus statement that all new graduates have access to a government-subsidised new graduate programme in their first year.

For the first time Auckland nursing schools are reporting that mid-year students are struggling to get new graduate positions as the job market tightens.

Concerns about inadequate clinical preceptorship for new graduates are being echoed in a just-released Clinical Training Agency report.

Novice nurses gain confidence and competence through new graduate programmes but many preceptors are overloaded and fatigued, says newly released research.

More than 90 per cent of new nurses are successfully completing Nursing Entry to Practice (NETP) programmes, according to the Clinical Training Agency.

The mental health sector is looking forward to 2010 after the restructured and sometimes controversial new graduate and postgraduate training places were finally decided in December.