NEWS HR
May 3, 2016
Niki Kiriona-Kahukoti got $450 for the rings, worth more than $5000, she stole from a resident at the retirement village she worked at, the Palmerston North District Court heard. Niki Kiriona-Kahukoti no longer works at Abbeyfield House Retirement Home in Palmerston North, after her theft was discovered. The 43-year-old pleaded guilty in the Palmerston North District Court to burglary, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.
May 3, 2016
Southern DHB has reached an all-time record with 79 Registered Nurse (RNs) graduates participating in two structured integration nursing programmes this year. These programmes have been designed specifically to guide and assist nursing graduates as they embark on their new careers as registered nurses.
April 12, 2016
Social Development Minister Anne Tolley is not ruling out paying CYF caregivers more. The Government has revealed its plan to overhaul the embattled state carer, releasing the final review of a high-powered panel, appointed by Social Development Minister Anne Tolley. The law will be changed to allow vulnerable children to remain in care until they are at least 18, with the option to remain fully in care until they are 21. CYF children will also be able to choose whether they keep support services until they are 25. Currently they lose all support they day they turn 17.
April 7, 2016
An angry nurse who wiped faeces under the nose of a 97-year-old dementia patient after he soiled himself at a Bupa-run home has been struck off.
April 5, 2016
Bernie Smith is the new chief executive of Mangere’s Monte Cecilia Housing Trust.
March 31, 2016
A nurse who admitted to falsifying employment references for positions overseas has been fined and censured. Conrado Santos, applied for two positions in Queensland last year and successfully asked two line managers at Waikato Hospital to provide written references. Mr Santos altered their written words and set up fake email accounts purporting to belong to his two managers, from which he sent his polished-up versions. He also created a false email account for one of the perspective employers and told the two line managers to email their references there. The email accounts were created from Hotmail and Outlook accounts. Mr Santos embellished the original references and sent them on. He admitted four charges of professional misconduct at a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal hearing in Wellington in November last year.
March 22, 2016
A woman who was amongst several girls raped or indecently assaulted by a social worker 30 years ago will seek compensation from the Government over its handling of the case.
March 15, 2016
A nurse is appearing before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal on a raft of dishonesty charges. For more than two years, the nurse used a web of elaborate lies to gain employment, and lied again to cover her incompetence. The fantasy was constructed with false references from people she never met, a made-up pregnancy, and grandiose tales of her professional prowess.
