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Empowering nurses through education.
Healthcare education for Registered Nurses and Aged Care Teams in New Zealand.
NZ Healthcare Education provides practical online education, CPD and professional development for Registered Nurses, Care Partners and healthcare organisations across New Zealand.
We specialise in aged care education, RN leadership, preceptor training and OSCE preparation for Internationally Qualified Nurses.
Our mission is to improve the quality of care by giving nurses the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to provide safe, high-quality care.
NZ OSCE PREP
This online course is designed specifically to support Internationally Qualified Nurses (IQNs) in successfully passing the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
You will receive comprehensive preparations across all ten stations ensuring you build both confidence and competence.
The modules integrate cultural safety, effective communication and clinical reasoning that the IQNs often find most challenging.
AGED CARE-ANNUAL CPD
Stay current. Strengthen your practice.
This is a series of annual professional development modules for Aged Care Home staff to maintain and strengthen the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to provide safe, person-centered and high-quality care in an aged care setting.
We have courses for Registered Nurses and Care Partners.
The content meets the Ngā Paerewa and Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ) requirements.
CPD+ REGISTERED NURSES
Extend your learning. Add your CPD hours.
These learning modules are designed for Registered Nurses who want to extend their knowledge, refresh key areas of practice and gain additional CPD hours.
Complete the modules at your own pace and choose the topics that are relevant to your learning needs and professional development goals.
FEATURED COURSES
The NCNZ Six Pou and Descriptors Explained
The Nursing Council of New Zealand's Six Pou and associated descriptors form the foundation of registered nursing practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. This course is designed to break each Pou and descriptor into manageable sections, using clear explanations, practical examples, and simple language.
Use this course as a practical resource to build your understanding of the Six Pou. Familiarising yourself with the content will increase your confidence in applying the Six Pou to your professional practice. Highly recommended for all nurses! ($19.95)
Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Cultural Safety
Understanding Māori health is an essential part of nursing practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. As tangata whenua (the indigenous people of New Zealand), Māori have a unique history, culture, language, and worldview that influence health and wellbeing.
Registered Nurses have a professional responsibility to provide culturally safe care, recognise the impact of historical and contemporary inequities, and work in partnership with Māori to achieve equitable health outcomes. This aligns with the Nursing Council of New Zealand's competencies, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Ngā Paerewa NZS 8134:2021. ($29.95 - CPD Hours: 2)
RN Preceptor Essentials
Gain certification as RN preceptor!
This training module will prepare you to confidently support, teach, supervise, and assess nursing students, graduate nurses, and newly employed staff.
This programme combines short teaching sessions, activities, quizzes, reflective practice, and practical tools that you can immediately apply in your workplace. ($150 - CPD Hours: 8)
Infection Prevention and Control
Designed for Registered Nurses in New Zealand, this module covers essential Infection Prevention and Control practices aligned with Ngā Paerewa NZS 8134:2021, Health New Zealand guidance, and current best practice.
Topics include transmission-based precautions, hand hygiene, PPE, donning and doffing, aseptic technique, outbreaks, HAIs, antimicrobial stewardship and more. ($29.95 - CPD Hours: 2)
Dementia Care
This course provides nurses with practical knowledge and strategies to support people living with dementia throughout the progression of the condition. It explores dementia types and stages, person-centred communication and care, behavioural changes, the ABC approach, and recognising possible delirium or acute health concerns.
The course also focuses on advanced and end-of-life dementia care, including de-escalation, comfort, dignity, family and whānau support, and ongoing review of goals of care. ($19.95 - CPD Hours: 1)
Palliative and End-of-Life Care
This course explores a palliative approach to care in aged care, focusing on comfort, dignity and quality of life for people approaching the end of life. You will develop practical knowledge of symptom management, including recognising and responding to common end-of-life symptoms such as pain, breathlessness, agitation, anxiety, nausea and vomiting, and respiratory secretions. The course also covers advance care planning, comfort-focused nursing care, non-verbal recognition of pain and distress, medication considerations, and supporting families and whānau. ($29.95 - CPD Hours: 2)
RN Leadership Essentials (Beginner)
This course is for all RNs working across healthcare settings in New Zealand who are seeking to strengthen their leadership, clinical coordination, and patient safety skills.
Key topics include clinical governance, patient safety, staffing coordination, escalation of deteriorating patients, conflict resolution, quality improvement, coaching and mentoring staff, managing workload pressure, and leading change. ($150 - CPD Hours: 8)
Leading Excellence (Advanced)
This practical and engaging advanced leadership programme is designed for emerging and current Clinical Managers, Charge Nurses and Clinical Leaders who want to strengthen their leadership practice and make a positive difference to staff wellbeing, patient safety and quality outcomes. Explore cultural safety, effective communication, financial stewardship, resilience and wellbeing, while developing practical skills to lead quality improvement using Kaizen, Six Sigma and DMAIC. ($250 - CPD Hours: 8)
ONLINE WEBINARS
OSCE Info Session - FREE!
Thinking about enrolling in an OSCE Preparation Course? Come along to our webinar and find out exactly what to expect! Meet your Clinical Educators, learn how the course is delivered, discover how we prepare you for the OSCE, and find out what support is available throughout your journey. There will also be a live Q&A session, giving you the opportunity to ask questions, clarify what’s involved, and hear directly from the educators who will support you.
Next Webinar: TBA (email us if you have questions)
Invest in your learning. Strengthen your practice. Deliver better care.
Our flexible online learning courses help build your knowledge, confidence and clinical skills while meeting professional development needs.
Learn at your own pace, explore practical evidence-informed topics relevant to your nursing practice, and add valuable CPD hours to your professional development.
Sign up today!