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Aotearoa Nursing Leaders' Summit

24 - 25 February 2025 | Grand Millennium, Auckland

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What are the next steps you can take in your professional development?

Are you a nursing professional and looking to work on your leadership skills? Do you feel unsure what steps to take next in your career? Look no further! The professional landscape is constantly evolving, and this conference is designed to help you navigate it.

 

Shape the future of nursing in 2025 and attend this event created for established and aspiring nurse leaders. This summit equips you with the knowledge, skills, and connections to drive excellence in your team and navigate the every-changing healthcare environment.

 

This unique summit offers:

  • Engaging presentations and panel discussions
  • Interactive table talks on critical issues
  • Opportunities to network and build lasting connections
  • Actionable takeaways to implement in your practice
 
Don’t miss your chance to invest in your leadership journey!

What can you expect of the 2025 summit:

  • Future-proof your leadership: Gain crucial insights into the evolving healthcare landscape and the skills needed to thrive in it
  • Learn from the best: Hear inspiring presentations from passionate nurse leaders and engage in insightful panel discussions with key experts
  • Sharpen your toolkit: Develop practical skills and strategies to build a high-performing team and cultivate a positive work environment
  • Network with like-minded leaders: Connect and share best practices with established and aspiring nurse leaders from across New Zealand

Who can you expect to be there?

Explore who joined us at the summit in 2024

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Venue

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Grand Millennium Auckland
71 Mayoral Drive, Cnr Vincent Street, Auckland 1010

Agenda

Work In Progress…. We’re currently working on our 2025 agenda

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View 2024 Agenda & Speakers

8:30

Registration and Coffee

8:45

Mihi Whakatau

9:00

Welcome remarks from the Chair 

Kate Weston, Executive Director, College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ)

9:10

Celebrating the role of the modern nurse in the Aotearoa New Zealand health and care system

  • Maximizing the contribution of the nursing profession to improving health outcomes and tackling the challenges facing the New Zealand system health system

  •  Understanding the developing opportunities and roles for nurses across the spectrum of healthcare

  • Developing the capacity of nursing leaders at all levels to support transformation and innovation

  • Ensuring that nursing standards and competencies are enabling, appropriate, relevant, and reflect the future of the nursing profession

  • Addressing pay disparities across the nursing workforce in New Zealand

  • Showcasing where our nurse leaders in defining new care models, driving equity, innovation, and improvement and championing the wellbeing of their teams

Kate Weston, Executive Director, College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ)

9:50

International Nursing Leader Address

  • Exploring the global challenges facing health systems in the 21st century and examining how nurses are redefining their roles to tackle these challenges

  • From patients to consumers - adapting healthcare provision to meet the changing needs of its customers – how does this impact nursing practice and change the dynamics of the therapeutic nurse patient relationship?

  • Ensuring the nurses and nursing are at the heart of the current technological transformation of healthcare – how can nurses work to make sure that changes benefit the most vulnerable?

  • Analysing new care models and healthcare interventions and how they are redefining nursing practice

  •  Exploring a range of nursing innovations that have delivered transformations within our health system

Caroline Alexander CBE, Group Chief Nursing Officer,Barts Health NHS Trust

10:30

Morning break

11:00

The role of the nurse leader in ongoing health system reform

  • Discussing the unique perspective that nurses bring to health policy discussions

  • Exploring how nurses can influence policy at local, regional and national levels

  •  Ensuring that nurse leaders have the capability, capacity and opportunity to create and champion evidence-based health policy and reform

  • Making sure that strong nursing leadership is embedded at every level across the health and care landscape and empowered to deliver change

  • Amplifying the voice of nursing as advocate so that it is heard to ensure that change and reform to focus on the needs of patients achieve improved patient outcomes

  • Presenting examples of nursing-led initiatives that successfully influenced policy change

  • Analysing the strategies used and lessons learned from these cases

Kerri Nuku, Kaiwhakahaere, New Zealand Nurses Organisation

11:40

Panel Discussion: Leading for health equity: The role of nursing in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • The role of nursing leaders in championing improvements to health equity

  • Improving equity through strong leadership and representation at all levels of nursing

  •  How can we ensure that nursing practice, education and regulation embodies Te Tiriti o Waitangi and promotes equitable outcomes for Māori?

  •  Exploring how nurses working across a range of sectors are working to tackle the social determinants of health that impact equity

  •  Bringing together indigenous knowledge and modern nursing approaches to improve health outcomes for all 

  •  Showcasing how Māori and Pasifika nurse leaders and providers are driving changes to the way care is designed, coordinated and provided

  •  Exploring how nurses are undertaking co-design of care models in partnership with patients and whanau to improve the equity of health and care services 

Denise Wilson, Associate Dean Māori Advancement, Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences | Taupua aiora Māori Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology

Dean Cowles, National Nursing Advisor-Māori Affairs,Southern Cross Healthcare

Karen Magrath, Principal Clinical Advisor, Plunket

Josephine Davis, Associate Head Māori Nursing, University of Auckland

Brenda Close, Chief Nursing Officer Toi Ora, Te Whatu Ora Hauora a Toi Bay of Plenty

Tui Makoare-Iefata, Ara Hauora Project Lead, ProCare

12:40

Lunch break

13:40

Working to enhance the leadership capability of nurses in New Zealand

  • Identifying the core skills and capabilities of effective
    nurse leaders

  • Integrating modern theories of leadership and management with the discipline of nursing

  • How can nurses develop and enhance their ability to deliver inter-professional influence in order enable service improvement and maximise organisational performance?

Bel Macfie, Director of Nursing and Clinical Services, Hospice Waikato

14:20

Leading together: Enhancing patient care through interprofessional collaboration in nursing leadership

  • How nursing leaders play a central role in encouraging collaboration and breaking down professional silos

  • Approaches for developing teams that bring together the strengths and expertise of nurses, doctors, allied health, and other healthcare professionals

  • Discussion of emerging trends in interprofessional collaboration and how nursing leaders can help shape a more integrated, resilient healthcare system

Jill Clendon, Regional Clinical Director Primary and Community Care, Te Whatu Ora Te Waipounamu

14:50

Leading from the community: The vital role of home and community nurses in healthcare

  • Highlighting the importance of home and community-based nursing in the broader health and care system and defining the key nursing roles and skillsets within that landscape

  • Exploring the spectrum of nursing roles within community settings

  • Understanding the prioritisation of community care in the next phase of health system reform and the key role that nurses in this sector need to play in enabling the transformation required

  • Examining the role of nurses in delivering effective care coordination and achieving integrated care for multi-morbidly with high needs patients in the community setting

  • Nursing workforce transformation in the community setting

  • Shifting care from acute to community settings – how are nurses enabling an expansion of the range and complexity of services that can be delivered in the home and community setting

Vanessa Pullan, Director of Nursing, HealthCare New Zealand

15:20

Afternoon break

15:40

Empowering nurses: The role of nurse prescribers in modern healthcare

  • Overview of the evolution of nurse prescribing in New Zealand healthcare

  •  Highlighting key regulatory frameworks relevant to nurse prescribing

  • Discussing how nurse prescribers can enhance equity and access to healthcare services

  •  Exploring how nurse prescribing can support the reimagining of primary healthcare in rural and under-served settings

  • Presenting case studies that illustrate improved patient outcomes due to nurse prescribing

Rachel Hale, Director, Residential Eder Care Services

16:20

Honouring End-of-Life Choices: The compassionate role of nursing leadership in New Zealand

  •  Highlighting the role of nursing leadership in supporting patients and families during this critical time

  • Understanding the legal and ethical frameworks surrounding end-of-life decisions in New Zealand

  •  Discussing how nurses can advocate for patients’ rights to make informed end-of-life choices

  • How can we best support the wellbeing of nurses involved in end-of-life choices

Michael Nestman, Manager Autonomy – Living Well, Te Whatu Ora | Health NZ

Katie Ben, Lead clinical advisor to the Assisted Dying secretariat, and Specialist Anaesthetist, Te Whatu Ora Nelson Marlborough

17:15

Summary remarks from the Chair & networking drinks

8:30

Registration and Coffee

9:00

Welcome remarks from the Chair 

Kate Weston, Executive Director, College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ)

9:10

Transforming Nursing Leadership: Insights and Innovations from Singapore

  • Introduction to Singapore's Nursing leadership landscape

  • Innovative leadership models in Singapore

  • Case studies of successful leadership initiatives in Singapore’s nursing sector

  • Successful change management strategies and leading through crises

  • Building resilience and adaptability in nursing teams

Dr. Hoi Shu Yin, Chief Nurse, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

9:50

Harnessing technology: The future of nursing in digital age

  • Exploring the digitisation of healthcare, highlighting the transformative impact of digital and information technologies on nursing

  • Examining the clinical digital literacy imperative

  • Introducing a digital clinical safety framework for nursing

  • Discussing a case study of technology-mediated nursing (aka telehealth) for the future, introducing new ways of thinking about data, analytics, knowledge, and innovation

Karen Day, Senior Lecturer, Health Informatics, University of Auckland

10:30

Morning break

11:00

Panel Discussion: Transforming the nursing workforce - strategies to achieve future-ready staffing

  • Highlighting the need for workforce transformation in nursing to meet evolving patient care demands and shortages of skills in key areas

  • Can we identify the skills and capabilities required by the future healthcare system?

  • Developing systematic, objective methods of reviewing skills, capabilities and roles and aligning skill mix requirements with evolving models of care

  • Role redesign – what can we do to address the persistent divisions between healthcare professions that determines who does what – does this hamper our ability to deliver innovation

  • Creating system-wide plan for the development of the nursing workforce: Improving nursing workforce pipelines and tackling critical shortfalls

  • Re-imagining the nursing workforce – sharing examples of workforce transformation in practice

  • Discussing strategies for preventing burnout and improving job satisfaction and wellbeing among nurses – what is the role of the nurse leader?

  • How can we improve the profile of community, primary care and aged care nursing and make it more attractive to new nurses to support the shifts in care required?

Monica Goldwater, Chief Nursing Officer, Southern Cross Healthcare

Deborah Nelson, Acute Flow Programme Manager, Regional HSS Priorities, Te Whatu Ora Waikato

Brenda Close, Chief Nursing Officer Toi Ora, Te Whatu Ora Hauora a Toi Bay of Plenty

Wendy Blair, Competency Advisor, New Zealand Nurses Organisation

12:00

Safe staffing and healthy workplaces: Is there hope?

  • What does the evidence tell us about the inextricable links between safe staffing, healthy workplaces and the safety and quality of patient/client care and outcomes?

  • If we have safe staffing, is it necessarily a healthy workplace?

  • What impacts are we seeing in healthcare of unhealthy workplaces?

  • What is mentally healthy work, psychological safety and psychosocial risk management got to do with it all?

  • Are our current systems and processes working and understanding what is happening at a ground level?

  • What is the role of leaders?

  • How can we make a difference?      

  • What does the future hold for our healthcare workforce in this changing world of work and the impact of increasing societal pressures?

Janice Riegen, Healthy Workplaces Nurse Specialist

12:40

Lunch break

13:40

Nursing Research Showcase: Aligning clinical research, innovation and health care delivery

The Nursing Research Showcase highlights innovative and impactful research within the nursing field. This session features a diverse array of projects that illuminate the latest academic advancements, developments in evidence-based practice and research trends in nursing. The Showcase will feature three leading nursing academic researchers. who will share their current research across a range of sectors and outline the highlights of their research findings, discussing how this evidence can inform the future development of nursing practice and how the research can be translated into evidence-based practice


- Reflective practice in addiction nursing: Enhancing professional well-being and patient care - defining reflective practice and its significance in nursing, particularly in addiction care


Fran Bettridge, District Addictions Lead, Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine Tararua| Te Whatu Ora / MidCentral


- Kindness: What it is, why it matters, and how it can enhance organisational performance:Nicki will present a definition of kindness and explore the evidence for the positive impact of kindness on individual, team, and organisational performance. She will briefly outline her recently submitted PhD findings, identifying the crucial conditions required to support kindness within workplaces and organisations



Nicki Macklin, PhD Candidate, Associate Editor BMJ Leader, University of Auckland


15:00

Summary remarks from the Chair & end of the conference

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Speakers

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2025 Speakers will be announced soon!

Speakers

Kerri Nuku

Kaiwhakahaere
New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Kerri is a Registered Nurse and Midwife by background working across primary, community and hospital-based nursing, she is currently the Kaiwhakahaere at Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa – New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Kerri is member of the International Council of Nurses, Audit and Risk Committee, Co-chair of the Iwi Maori Partnership Board for Te Aka Whai Ora. Honorary Member of Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa, New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Kerri is a well-respected international Indigenous nursing leader who has been representing Aotearoa on a global stage at a range of international for a for decades. She has strong indigenous networks and is a skilled strategist and thinker and strong advocate for human rights, Indigenous rights, women, and Workers’ Rights. Kerri is a recipient of the prestigious” International Human Rights and Nursing Award” from the University of Exter UK and recognised in 100 Maori Leaders New Zealand.

Janice Riegen

Healthy Workplaces Nurse Specialist
Janice is passionate about the critical importance of  growing ‘Healthy        Workplaces’.  The World Health Organization (WHO, 2010) identify, it is ‘the right, legal and smart thing to do’.  Her Master of Health Science ‘Examining Healthy Workplaces’ in healthcare, demonstrated the inextricable links between health, safety, wellbeing and work and the direct influences on the safety and quality of patient/client care and outcomes. This lay the foundation for ongoing work that includes focusing on the broader influencers and drivers.  Too often the focus is on individual wellbeing and there is a lack of undertsanding of the organizational factors that are crucial and should be the primary area of focus.  These include aspects in our changing world of work: governance; leadership, psychosocial risks; psychological safety and wellbeing in the workplace.  Collaborative approaches are essential to make a difference to workers, patients/clients, families/whānau, society, business, society and our economy.  Through using a strategic, holistic, quality improvement approach, that engages workers and incorporates Māori cultural perspectives is promoted. Leadership, engagement, teamwork and measures are essential for positive, psychologically safe working environments.  

Karen Day

Senior Lecturer, Health Informatics
University of Auckland

Rachel Hale

Director
Residential Eder care Services

Jill Clendon

Regional Clinical Director Primary and Community Care
Te Whatu Ora Te Waipounamu
Jill is an experienced nurse leader with a track record of developing and managing the implementation of innovative project solutions based on robust evidence. Jill is a skilled researcher, policy analyst and strategist and hold extensive insight and knowledge regarding the nursing, health and union sectors. Jill has a proven ability to identify and develop people’s strengths to enhance organisational and team performance. Jill is experienced at financial management in a tight fiscal environment and at negotiating successful contracts. Jill is committed to biculturalism and the Treaty of Waitangi and experienced in implementing both within an organisation .Jill has experience in working with the media, negotiating conflict and advocating for nursing at all levels

Dean Cowles

National Nursing Advisor-Māori Affairs
Southern Cross Healthcare
Dean’s clinical background is in clinical education, theatre, PACU and public health. He has spent most of his nursing career in the public sector, and made the move into private healthcare four years ago. Dean currently works as the National Nursing Advisor for Māori Affairs, within the Nursing Directorate, at Southern Cross Healthcare. He co-chairs Kawa Whakaruruhau committees at tertiary institutions, provides consultation for perioperative groups across Aotearoa, is involved in various national research projects, and runs virtual workshops and webinars for rural health practitioners to ensure his message reaches all corners of Aotearoa. Dean has recently completed his Master’s thesis exploring strategies to improve Māori health outcomes, in private surgical settings, by understanding the value of Māori nurses in this space. Dean is motivated to inspire transformational change for Māori patients & whānau by re-indigenising the way in which healthcare is provided.

Nicki Macklin

PhD Candidate, Associate Editor BMJ Leader
University of Auckland
Nicki is in her final year of a PhD at University of Auckland’s FMHS exploring kindness in healthcare teams. She is a patient advocate for several boards and foundations as well as Associate Editor for the BMJ Leader with a special focus on kindness and human connection research. Nicki started her professional life practicing as an occupational therapist with a dual qualification in public health. Later experiences include quality improvement management, and integrated person-centred service design and implementation in primary health care settings. Whilst busily enjoying a career in the health sector, her world shifted on its axis when she became mum of two beautiful children, one of whom has required a wide range of healthcare services over the last decade. It was this journey, understanding the power of kindness for patient and whānau outcomes and experiences, that sparked her curiosity and commitment to learning more about what helps and hinders kindness in healthcare settings. She believes that if we want kindness to flow out to patients and communities, first we must start by actively caring for those who provide the caring, our healthcare professionals. Nicki is passionate about challenging people’s assumptions about kindness being soft and fluffy, by raising awareness of the science behind kindness. She sees kindness as a key tenet of human experience, team performance, patient safety, and healthcare quality improvement.

Katie Ben

Lead clinical advisor to the Assisted Dying secretariat, and Specialist Anaesthetist
Te Whatu Ora Nelson Marlborough
Katie trained and qualified in anaesthesia in the UK. She moved to New Zealand in 2009 with her husband and two young children in search of a more functional health care system, a better place to bring up her two boys, and better weather. Two out of three isn’t bad…! She has been a specialist anaesthetist in the Nelson region since moving here, and joined the awesome Assisted Dying team in June 2024 having been a provider of the service since 2022. Katie is passionate about providing equitable care for all patients regardless of geographical isolation, and with that aim has undertaken learning to fly in order to make the West Coast of the South Island more accessible. She has offered rides to her colleagues, but as yet nobody has taken her up on it. Outside work and flying, Katie enjoys a variety of hobbies including playing the harp and recently performed with the New Zealand Doctor’s Orchestra at their latest concert. She is joined in this by her children, who play both harp and keyboard, and in good weather you can find them busking in the local market. Katie is always happy to be contacted with queries or concerns related to the provision of Assisted Dying within New Zealand

Michael Nestman

Manager Autonomy – Living Well
Health NZ
Michael is originally from Germany and moved to New Zealand in 2010. Born and bred in a very rural area, Michael left school age 15 to become a lumberjack. He later decided to go into health and worked as a paramedic for five years and then trained to become a nurse. Since arriving in New Zealand, Michael has worked as a clinical lead and quality manager across several ARC facilities in Wellington, with a special focus on quality improvement and quality systems management. During this time, he completed a postgraduate degree in Health Science at Victoria University of Wellington. After 20 years of nursing, most of it in ARC, Michael brought his strong focus to compassionate patient-centred care and health services to the Ministry of Health in 2021, working in Border Operations and later in HealthCERT before seizing the opportunity to work alongside the Assisted Dying team. Michael is blessed with four children and a dog, as well as having an amazing job and fantastic team he can support to deliver an important and unique service, learning something new every day.

Vanessa Pullan

Director of Nursing
HealthCare New Zealand
Since commencing her nursing career over 25 years ago, Vanessa has developed extensive expertise in both older people’s health and rehabilitation services.  Having worked across the spectrum of hospital and community care, including in clinical, leadership, and management roles, Vanessa is a passionate advocate for strong clinical leadership and service delivery that is grounded by current evidence and good practice.  She holds a master’s degree in nursing and a Post Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation. Since joining HealthCare New Zealand in 2017, Vanessa has transformed how our team of nurses deliver care and support across our Home and Community, District Nursing, CREST and NZCL services.  Her solution focused, hands on leadership approach ensures sound clinical governance and leadership is embedded into everything we do. She has also been instrumental in strengthening HealthCare New Zealand’s position as a sector leader through the development of wider health sector relationships and contributing to national sector development initiatives with both the Ministry of Health and ACC.  

Denise Wilson

Associate Dean Māori Advancement, Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences
Auckland University of Technology
Advocating for improving health and social outcomes for whānau Māori has been a feature of Professor Denise Wilson’s career. Denise is an Associate Dean of Māori Advancement and a Professor in Māori Health. As a Professor of Māori Health, Denise undertakes research focusing on violence in Māori/indigenous whānau, Māori health and health service engagement, cultural responsiveness, and workforce development. Denise recently led a Marsden-funded research project, E Tū Wāhine, E Tū Whānau – Māori women keeping safe in unsafe relationships, which contributed new perspectives to working with Māori women affected by violence. She was a member of AUT’s Tērā te Haeata – Te Tiriti o Waitangi Responsiveness Reference Group, and Ki Uta, Ki Tai – Student Success Plan Reference Group. Initially qualified as a registered nurse, Denise has a background in intensive and coronary care, acute medicine and community nursing. She was Director (2010-2022)/Co-Director (2017-2022) of the AUT Taupua Waiora Māori Research Centre. She is a Fellow of Te Mata o te Tau – Academy of Māori Research & Scholarship, the College of Nurses Aotearoa (New Zealand), and in 2019 was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nurses for her contributions to research and policy related to Indigenous peoples and family violence affecting Indigenous families, and in 2020, elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Monica Goldwater

Chief Nursing Officer
Southern Cross Healthcare
Monica Goldwater is a highly experienced leader in nursing having worked in both public and private, inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings across the US and New Zealand; and led nursing for multiple large complex and multi-site healthcare organizations. A registered nurse in both the US and NZ and member of the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses, Monica completed her MBA at Massey University in 2011 before moving to the US and working in several key leadership positions within the American healthcare sector. Monica returned to New Zealand in April 2023, and joined Southern Cross Healthcare from the University of Vermont Medical Centre where she was Director of Perioperative Services.

Caroline Alexander CBE

Group Chief Nursing Officer
Barts Health NHS Trust
Caroline graduated as a nurse in 1987 from Edinburgh University (BSc/RGN) and has an MSc in Nursing Studies from South Bank University (2001). From 1987 to 1993 she specialised in nursing older people in Edinburgh and then London at Guy’s Hospital as a ward sister. Caroline then worked for the Foundation of Nursing Studies for three years supporting nurses to use research in practice. In 1998 Caroline returned to the NHS and worked in Tower Hamlets in a range of roles within older people’s services. In 2005, Caroline took up her first Director post, as Director of Nursing and Therapies within Tower Hamlets PCT. With the clustering of PCTs in London in 2011, she took on the Director of Nursing and Quality within NHS East London and the City initially and then within NHS North East London when the clusters merged in 2012. until she joined NHS England as Regional Chief Nurse for London in April 2013. Caroline took up her current role of Chief Nurse for Barts Health in March 2016. Caroline was a 2008 Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholar and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from City, University of London in 2017, Middlesex University in 2018 and University of East London in 2021. She is a Trustee of the Foundation of Nursing Studies. In 2020 she was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Josephine Davis

Associate Head Māori Nursing
University of Auckland

Deborah Nelson

Acute Flow Programme Manager, Regional HSS Priorities,
Te Whatu Ora Waikato

Bel Macfie

Director of Nursing and Clinical Services
Hospice Waikato

Kate Weston

Executive Director
College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ)
Kate Weston has extensive nursing leadership experience, with a career spanning four decades, including management, nursing leadership and professional nursing advisory roles. Kate has recently been appointed as the Executive Director of the College of Nurses Aotearoa, a Professional Organization that provides leadership and support to nurses, advocating for the health and wellbeing of Aotearoa. The strategic aim of the organisation is to Stand for Nurses – supporting nurses to be able to meet the challenges of the current healthcare environment, by advancing professional issues for nurses. Kate’s clinical background has been primarily women’s and children’s health, including community, primary and secondary services in the health and disability sectors. Kate has a particular interest in medico-legal and ethical issues in professional nursing practice and the health quality and safety factors that affect nurses’ ability to deliver safe patient care.

Fran Bettridge

District Addictions Lead
Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine Tararua| Te Whatu Ora / MidCentral

Brenda Close

Chief Nursing Officer Toi Ora
Te Whatu Ora Hauora a Toi Bay of Plenty
Brenda Close has a Pākehā and Māori heritage and is a mokopuna of Te Tai Tokerau with whakapapa to Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Maniapoto. Her home marae is Mangamuka. She is a senior Māori Nurse leader with over 30 years of practice as a Registered Nurse in both Aotearoa and Australia. She commenced her clinical nursing with her career at Princess Mary Childrens Hospital with a focus on child and youth health. Throughout her career she has worked across many clinical specialities in both hospital and community settings moving to a whānau ora focus in her nursing. This has included leading service development and delivery in rural and remote communities, working in partnership with communities. Early in her career she moved into leadership roles with mahi in policy, strategy, management and challenging inequities and racism within the health system. She has a passion for workforce development and Māori and indigenous health. She has held a number of nursing leadership positions in health and professional entities, locally, regionally and nationally. Brenda Close is the Chief Nursing Officer Toi Ora for Te Whatu Ora Hauora a Toi with a focus on Māori health and nursing and working beside local whānau, community and teams to support the implementation of Toi Ora Systems of Care and the achievement of Toi Ora.

Tui Makoare-Iefata

Ara Hauora Project Lead
ProCare
As part of the Equity team, Tui serves as the Project Lead for the Ara Hauora Mobile Outreach service at ProCare. The eldest of six siblings, a proud mother of five Tamariki, and grandmother (nannie) to 17 mokopuna, her journey is deeply rooted in whānau. With 30 years of community experience, Tui has held various roles, including serving on the National Tamariki Ora Advisory Board and working as a nurse in Tamariki Ora, Whānau Ora, mental health, and practice nursing. Her passion for improving health outcomes for Māori began with a focus on *te hauora o māmā me te pēpi* (the health of mothers and babies), adopting a holistic approach that considers the needs of the entire whānau within the whare. Since joining ProCare in January 2022, she has continued this nurse-led mahi through outreach services, embracing a whānau-centric approach that seamlessly integrates cultural and clinical engagement.

Wendy Blair

Competency Advisor
New Zealand Nurses Organisation

Dr. Hoi Shu Yin

Chief Nurse
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Dr. Hoi Shu Yin is the Chief Nurse at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) in Singapore, known for her contributions to nursing and healthcare innovation. Dr. Hoi is a proponent for improving healthcare services and nurse empowerment. She played a pivotal role in  during the COVID-19 pandemic and establishing the Nursing Shared Governance System at TTSH. This system fosters a culture of collective leadership, allowing nurses to make impactful decisions in patient care. Her work in digital transformation and her collaboration on innovations like the PreSAGE fall-monitoring system highlight her commitment to enhancing healthcare efficiency and safety. Dr. Hoi has also been recognized for her leadership and dedication to the nursing profession with several accolades, including the President’s Award for Nurses in 2023; The Public Administration Gold Award (COVID-19); and Her World Women of the Year recognition in 2020.

Karen Magrath

Principal Clinical Advisor
Plunket

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  • Substitute Delegate: If you are unable to attend the conference, you may send a substitute delegate from your organisation to attend the event at no additional cost. 

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