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Nayda Heays is looking forward to a career in nursing.
Trainee Nurse Aims To Make A Difference
May 28, 2014

Nursing practice experience in Hawke’s Bay hospitals has shaped final-year degree student Nayda Heays’ ambition to work in an acute nursing setting like intensive care. When she...

Master of Nursing graduates and their Theses
May 28, 2014

There were 13 Master of Nursing graduates at the recent 2014  graduation. Congratulations, one and all! Brief abstracts of their  theses follow. Lucy Beams How adults with Type 2...

Welcome to new staff in MHSc and MN
May 14, 2014

Dr Karen Munday has an extensive background in health, initially as a registered nurse, including organizing feeding centres in South Sudan and Afghanistan, before moving into the area of...

Master of Health Science Degree Starts!
May 14, 2014

The Master of Health Science (MHSc) has started with 13 enrolments including four in the 9.490 thesis course. The MHSc is a 180-credit (1½ years full-time, 3 years parttime)programme which...

Ongoing Journey For Nursing Graduate
March 25, 2014

Studying for her nursing degree was an “amazing journey” and one in a series for Ingrid Foss, a Hastings mother-of-five who graduates from EIT on Friday (March 21).Launching into tertiary...

Graduand Finds Study Make Her A Better Nurse
March 20, 2014

A swerve in Annatjie Pretorius’s life journey will see her capped with a Master of Nursing at EIT’s graduation ceremony on Friday.  (March 21) After training as a nurse in South Africa,...

More fee free study places
January 23, 2014

EIT youth scholarships, partially funded by the government’s Youth Guarantee (YG) scholarship scheme, has  now been extended to 18 and 19 year olds who wish to study up to Level 3. In...

EIT launches new Master of Health Science Degree
December 6, 2013

EIT launches its Master of Health Science as a new postgraduate degree next year. Delivered online, the degree requires 18 months of fulltime study or three years part time. Courses will...

Keen to get out and put skills to good use
November 18, 2013

Small steps are big steps in the world of nursing student Rachael Maka. The 22-year-old from Tonga started her tertiary journey at EIT Tairāwhiti in the literacy skills programme in...