ProCare in partnership with the Manukau
Institute of Technology (MIT), was pleased to announce the
winners of the Top Pacific Nurse award for 2023 at the
Pasifika Thanksgiving Celebration on Friday 26 May, where
over 40 graduates completed the Pacific Nursing
programme.
The ProCare Top Pacific Nurse Award aims to
recognise high-achieving Pacific nursing students, and to
encourage interest in primary care (GP) nursing and support
for the wider community.
This year the award was split
between three categories – Leadership, Academic and
Clinical Competency. We warmly congratulate our winners for
2023:
- Leadership – Tu’uta
Maue - Academic – Karishma Lal
- Academic –
Tamsin Heremaia - Clinical Competency – Barbara Lilly
Apineru.
Viv Pole, Head of Pacific Health at
ProCare says: “This is a fantastic award, a testament of
ProCare’s support for our Pacific nurses considering the
current nurse shortages. We are excited to support this
partnership which I understand may be the only Pacific
nursing award that Unitec and MIT have offered to support
their Pacific students.
“Our ProCare GP network
supports the largest Pacific population of around 105,000
people, so we are proud to recognise and celebrate our
future Pacific nurses who will go on to care for their
communities,” concludes Pole.
Bindi Norwell, ProCare
Group CEO says: “We’re delighted to recognise the
achievements of the wonderful Pacific Nurse graduates. Their
hard work, dedication and talent has not gone unnoticed, and
we are thrilled to celebrate with them. No doubt this award
will be the first of many, and we look forward to following
their careers and future endeavours to benefit our Pacific
communities and Aotearoa.”
This award is an
extension of ProCare’s Top Pacific and Māori GP Medical
Award – in partnership with The University of Auckland,
which has been in place since
2003.
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