Story: Health practitioners

Pacific nurses

Pacific nurses

To encourage more Pacific nurses, Whitireia New Zealand in Porirua offers a Pacific nursing degree. These student nurses are learning how to monitor blood pressure.

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Allison Kirkman, 'Health practitioners - Māori and Pacific health practitioners', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/28347/pacific-nurses (accessed 3 May 2024)

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 23 Apr 2018