February 26, 2020
Nursing degree to embrace Maori world view
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Manukau Institute of Technology is offering a Bachelor of Māori nursing qualification in a bid to attract more Māori to health careers.
Its head of nursing, Deborah Rowe, says it has a partnership with Counties Manukau Health to develop a workforce that reflects the population of the region by 2025.
She says the point of difference for the course will be the way it embraces the Māori world view.
"What we really wanted to do with the Bachelor of Nursing Māori is have that tikanga and have that manaakitanga for the students that come in that actually can embrace te ao Māori so when they go into the community, when they go into the DHBs, they have that understanding of how to apply tikanga to the whānau and the people they are serving," Associate Professor Rowe says.
She is seeing an increasing number of Māori studying nursing who are the first in their families to take on a tertiary degree, and they are serving as guides and role models for their wider whānau.
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