Puawānanga Tapuhi Māori (Bachelor of Nursing Māori)

Learn the clinical and cultural skills to work in a range of healthcare settings, from hospitals to community-based organisations while honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

You’ll be in high demand with NorthTec’s new Puawānanga Tapuhi Māori (Bachelor of Nursing Māori).

Although accessible to everyone this programme gives priority to ākonga who whakapapa Māori and integrates Mātauranga Māori approaches to teaching, learning and nursing practice.

Nursing and indigenous knowledge is integrated so graduates will be prepared to be registered nurses who can work in a wide range of healthcare settings with a qualification that is recognised nationally.

Nurses are the single largest body of health professionals in Aotearoa and thus have the greatest opportunity to address equity (or inequity) for health outcomes. This programme provides ākonga with the knowledge and skills to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and address health inequity through their nursing practice.

The programme is designed to be adaptable which is particularly important for local contextualisation where iwi, hapū, and hapori differences will be enabled and supported.

You will complete clinical placements here in Northland and learn through a blend of classroom and online study, preparing you to become a Registered Nurse with the Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ).

Programme aim

Programme aims to educate and produce competent nurses who use evidence-based practices and nursing knowledge to provide clinically and culturally safe nursing care to individuals, whanau and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. (and beyond)

Puawānanga Tapuhi Māori prepares nursing graduates for registration in the NCNZ registered nurse scope of practice.

Clinical Experience

Ākonga will be required to attend clinical placements throughout the Puawānanga Tapuhi Māori programme. These placements may occur anywhere in the Northland region (students will need to reside in the Northland region). These will be undertaken in a range of clinical settings including but not limited to: primary, secondary and tertiary care, te ao māori, community health, acute care, aged care, mental health, palliative and disability.

The NCNZ requires each student to complete a minimum of 1000 clinical hours in a variety of clinical placements prior to completion of the programme.

How you will learn

The Puawānanga Tapuhi Māori (Bachelor of Nursing Māori) is a progressive sequence of six semesters of study, totalling three years for a full-time student. Students wishing to study part-time should discuss with the Nursing Pathway Manager. There is a Nursing Council requirement for you to complete your degree within five years.

Learning and teaching will be inclusive, recognising all individuals and will employ a range of culturally responsive learning experiences imbedded in Mātauranga Māori pedagogies and inclusive approaches for disabled people. To ensure ākonga Māori can learn as Māori the following approaches are taken:

• Kanohi ki te kanohi: face to face learning acknowledges that communication includes not just words but also what one hears, sees, feels and smells and is a primary facet of human behaviour.
• Wānanga: involves ākonga meeting and discussing topics of importance as a process of gaining, sharing or arriving at highly evolved knowledge.
• Noho marae: involves ākonga staying on marae for educational purposes. It allows ākonga to experience how the physical, spiritual and emotional aspects of culture can be applied, as well as using te reo Māori.
• Taukana-Teina: a mentoring style relationship that is an integral part of traditional and contemporary Māori society.

Disabled ākonga are supported by disability support and accessibility services who work with ākonga to assess their individual needs. Ākonga may be supported by a reader and/or writer and learning materials, methods and technologies may be adapted where appropriate to ensure there are no barriers for disabled ākonga.

This programme is a blend of classroom, kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) teaching and online learning. Students will need to reside in Te Tai Tokerau to attend in person learning and clinical placements.

All courses have course content online that is designed to provide the student with some learning flexibility to study from home. There are weekly requirements for each course and the student can decide what time of the day or how many hours they spend online to reinforce their understanding of the content and to work on their assessments.

This is a full-time course which means 36+ hours per week will be required to achieve the weekly learning requirements.

Clinical learning is provided through a mix of practice in a controlled environment on mannequins and ākonga colleagues, simulated practice with live models and across the multiple nursing contexts with real patients (Clinical Learning Experiences / Placements). There are clinical learning experiences in semesters 2 - 6 which may include rostered shiftwork. The clinical learning experiences increase in time as ākonga progress through the programme. For example, in Semester 2 is 80 hours clinical learning experience building to the last transition to practice placement which is 360 hours.

Courses (Year 1):

• Whānautanga
• Tiaki Whānau
• Te Ture me te Tikanga
• Mana Atua
• Oranga Whānau
• Te Tiriti o Waitangi me Kawa Whakaruruhau
• Mana Tangata
• Manaaki i te Tangata

Courses (Year 2):

• Whakawhanaunga
• Mahi ā-Ringa Tuatahi
• Mana o Rongo
• Hauora Whānui
• Whakamahia te Ture me te Tikanga
• Mahi ā-Ringa Tuarua

Courses (Year 3):

• Tātai Hono
• Mahi ā-Ringa Tuatoru
• Whakamana te Ture me te Tikanga
• Whiringa ā-Mahi