Our July issue will present a variety of articles, in what could be described as a winter ‘pot pouri of delights’. Issues to be covered range from the impact of climate change on nurses’ future work, to research into the merits of blister-paced medication and the importance of nurses maintaining patients’ oral care.

Our continuing professional development article will focus on understanding diuretics.

Child and youth health is our theme for the June issue. Along with profiles of nurses working in this field, and an interview with the chief nurse of Plunket Jane O’Malley, we will also have coverage of the four-day Council of International Neonatal Nurses conference. This was held in New Zealand for the first time in early May. There will be an analysis of Budget 2019, being delivered at the end of May. Education is a sub-theme for this month.

Migrant nursing and the theme for International Nurses Day (Nurses, a Voice to Lead: Health for All) are the focus for our April issue.
There will be coverage of a migrant nursing conference in Auckland this month, and profiles of several migrant nurses and caregivers.
We will also feature nurses who have had to cope with the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attack.
The Science Short reminds nurses of the dangers of measles.

The March issue has a focus on critical care and emergency nursing. A major feature tells the story of a day and a night spent among the staff of the Nelson Hospital emergency department. Our continuing professional development article looks at gastritis and proton pump inhibitors.

Our first issue of the year – February – will focus on students, with articles written by students and research into a third-year nursing student community project.

There will also be a focus on mental health and wellbeing, in particular stress training for undergraduate nursing students.

Our combined December 2018/January 2019 issue presents an end-of-year “pot pouri of delights”. Articles cover a wide range of subjects including whether there is a place for paramedics within hospitals, encouraging nurses’ empathetic skills, looking back on 50 years of midwifery in Southland, a nurse’s traumatic journey to becoming an artist and an update on nursing in the Chatham Islands. There will also be a focus on the Māori nurses who spoke at the recent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into health services

The November issue focuses on aged care. Articles will cover topics such as how nurses support family carers of people with dementia, preparing students for their first clinical placement in aged care and living well with dementia.

CPD4Nurses will examine adverse drug reactions.

The issue will also include a report from the South Pacific Nurses’ Forum in the Cook Island, being held in October, and recommendations from the mental health and addictions inquiry