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You can help nurses & midwives rise. Investing in nurses and midwives creates a better future for healthcare in New Zealand.
You can help them rise
Help them rise.
100% of every donation made to the Rise scholarship
programme will support someone’s dream to
become a nurse or midwife.
Many of us know from personal nurse-to-population ratio to meet the
experience the vital role nurses and health demands of a growing, diverse
midwives play in our lives. and ageing population. It is also likely
to perpetuate a nursing workforce
Those who want to become nurses
that does not reflect the unique
and midwives are passionate and
ethnic makeup of the New Zealand
caring individuals who often believe
population.
this is the only career for them.
We want to help local people rise and
Becoming a nurse or a midwife is not
fulfill their dreams to care for others. sA
easy and we are finding that fewer
gift to our Rise scholarship programme
and fewer people are succeeding at
can help develop ambitious men and
fulfilling their ambition because they
women into highly skilled professionals
are not adequately supported.
who wouldn’t otherwise have the
Attracting nurses with the appropriate
qualification and competency required
opportunity to realise careers as
nurses and midwives.
You can support
by the New Zealand health system is
With your support, we can create
someone’s dream
not guaranteed into the future.
An increasing reliance on overseas
a future where new health
professionals can rise, to care for
to become a nurse
nurses alone will not improve the
the health of all our communities. or midwife.
An ageing workforce
Forty six is the average age
of a nurse in New Zealand.
The scale of the Over 43% of nurses
are aged 50.
challenge we face. 50% of the nursing
Nurses in Aotearoa face a set of challenges workforce will have retired
that are unprecedented in the history of the by 2035.
profession in this country.
Under-representation of
Māori and Pacific nurses
By 2035 it is estimated there will A new generation of nurses and 7% of the total nursing
be 5.26 million people living in midwives is needed. But fewer
workforce is Māori compared
New Zealand. people are entering and staying in the
to 15% of the New Zealand
workforce, and there are significant
This number alone will add extra population.
barriers to many students achieving
demand on our healthcare system, but
the 3-4 year degrees.
we also have to factor in our ageing
population and steady increases in Completing an expensive degree over In 2019 at Auckland DHB,
lifestyle diseases. an extended period without income only one new graduate
Add to this that 50% of New Zealand’s
is untenable for many students. In midwife identified as a Pacific
addition, clinical placements can Islander.
current nurses will be retired by 2035!
require travel, and living and parking
We’re already beginning to feel the costs, which add another barrier and
effects, with modelling revealing the force many not to complete their A dependence on
grim reality that we only had enough qualification. internationally qualified nurses
nurses to meet demand until 2020.
You can help us meet these 27% of New Zealand’s
This shortfall is predicted to continue challenges head on and enable nursing workforce are
over the next 15 years to a shortage individuals with a passion for internationally qualified
of 15,000 nurses across New Zealand nursing and midwifery to rise. nurses – higher than any
by 2035. other OECD country.
You can help them rise
Your visionary
As one of our very special supporters, that if they hit road blocks or barriers
we’re sure you would share our they can tap into a support system
conviction that if someone is passionate for assistance.
support. about becoming a nurse or a midwife,
we want to support them, whatever
mountains they need to climb.
– Post study, all scholars will initially
be employed by Auckland DHB,
Gifting to our Rise scholarship programme for nurses and providing opportunities to continue
midwives allows us to offer individuals more than just Our programme allows future nurses learning in New Zealand’s largest
financial support. and midwives to learn without the teaching hospital and giving them
added pressure of worrying how exposure to a vast range of patient
they will make ends meet. With cases through our clinical services.
your assistance, we can provide
When you give to the Rise scholarship
students with the financial, practical
programme, you not only help us meet
and emotional support they need to
the challenges ahead, you help to give
successfully complete their qualification
a rise in earning opportunities for the
and find a job.
individuals involved.
This Rise scholarship programme
This programme has also been
launched by the Auckland Health
designed to address the need
Foundation, in partnership with
for nurses and midwives to better
Auckland DHB, aims to remove barriers
represent our ethnic diversity in
to healthcare education and training.
New Zealand, in particular Māori
The Rise scholarship programme and Pacific people.
does this in a number of ways:
Importantly, your gift provides
– Scholarships are provided directly a vital rise in cultural diversity
to students rather than tertiary within the nursing and midwifery
institutions. This enables students workforce.
to use the funding where they
need it most, such as accessing
clinical placements, online learning
resources, vaccinations, child care,
travel, parking and school fees.
– During their training all scholars are
supported by Auckland DHB with
clinical placements, mentoring and
wrap around services. This means
You can help them rise
We need more
of our whānau
looking after
our whānau.
Fuelled by passion.
Enabled by support.
Sascha Henry was a cadet in Auckland DHB’s Health Care
Assistant Programme.
The 23-year-old was so fuelled with I believe I have found my calling. We
inspiration that she decided to pursue need more of our whānau looking after
nursing soon after she completed her our whānau.”
cadetship. But it wouldn’t have been
Auckland DHB believes in, and values
possible without a Rise scholarship.
this investment. Chief Nursing Officer
“I don’t think I would have gone on to Margaret Dotchin says it is extremely
nursing if I didn’t have the cadetship satisfying to see the students learn
behind me. For me, learning and and grow, and become valued
gaining the hands-on experience really members of Auckland DHB’s nursing
made me want to do nursing. As a team.
healthcare assistant, you see nurses
You can help people like Sascha
do so much and it made me want to be
achieve their passion. Without our
that person helping that patient.”
help, people like her are less likely
Thanks to funding and support she to succeed and, as such, our nursing
receives through the Rise scholarship and midwifery workforce suffers.
programme, Sascha is now studying
Your gift will help us build a
nursing with a focus on Māori health.
stronger and more diverse nursing
“Being a young Māori-Pasifika, and and midwifery workforce.
hearing about the statistics of our
people in health, it really made me
want to push to be in there. I want
to make a difference for our people
within the health sector.
L-R: Fellow cadet Calvin Fuimaono Aiesi Naoia with Sascha Henry
You can help them rise
Ways you can give.
The impact of your donation to the Rise scholarship
programme will be felt not only in the lives of future nurses
and midwives, but the future of New Zealand’s healthcare
and hospital system.
Those who currently support the Businesses also support the In return for their support we can If you would like to give to the Rise
Rise scholarship programme usually Rise scholarship programme provide each business with: scholarship programme please visit
gift between $1,000 and $3,000 a aucklandhealthfoundation.org.nz to
Local businesses committed to funding – A Rise logo for use on pre-agreed
year for 3-4 years. This enables them make a donation online, or call 09 307
students on their journey to becoming marketing collateral
to fully support the individuals in the 6039 to speak with a team member who
a nurse or midwife usually gift $3,000
programme throughout their training. – A framed personalised certificate can personally ensure your gift makes
(excl. of GST) a year for three years.
In return for their support we provide: with details of their commitment to considerable change.
Supporting the Auckland Health helping grow more Kiwi nurses and
– An invitation to meet the scholarship
Foundation is a way for local midwives
recipients and those who run the
businesses to nurture a positive
programme – An invitation to meet the scholarship
reputation, enhance their image and
recipients and those who run the
– Regular communications about the visibility, reinforce relationships with
programme
Auckland Health Foundation, with customers, differentiate themselves
updates on the achievements of from competitors and develop closer – Acknowledgement of their support
students who are supported relationships within the community. on Auckland Health Foundation’s
It also gives employees a reason to website
– Recognition in a number of ways to
be proud of where they work. New
acknowledge their commitment to – Regular communications about the
business may also be created through
helping grow more Kiwi nurses and Auckland Health Foundation, with
the contacts and leads generated by a
midwives. updates on the achievements of
relationship with the Auckland Health
students who are supported.
Foundation.
With your support,
we can create a
future where new
health professionals
rise, to care for the
health of all our
communities.
www.aucklandhealthfoundation.org.nz
hello@aucklandhealthfoundation.org.nz
+64 9 307 6039
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