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A nursing student with a passion for hauora Māori-led care has been named as the recipient for Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Whānau Āwhina Plunket’s Mere Harper and Ria Tikini Memorial Scholarship.

Due to a push for the industry to be better regulated, Toi Ohomai established level 4 and 5 Sterilising Technology courses, the first cohorts of which officially graduated in Rotorua last week.  

A chance opportunity five years ago to attend a careers event with a friend opened the door for 21-year-old Katelyn London to become a Registered Nurse.

Kelly Talbot, a hard-working, straight talking Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Southern Cross Hospital in Rotorua and Student Nurse Educator at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology’s Rotorua campus, was recently awarded the NZ Nurses Organisation’s Young Nurse of the Year Award.

A principal academic staff member at Toi Ohomai will be travelling to Minneapolis, United States, to attend the International Society of Clinical Densitometry’s (ISCD) 26th annual conference.

Receiving a Second Chance Education Award from the New Horizons for Women Trust helped Candice Donner overcome some major barriers to gain a Bachelor of Community Health from Toi Ohomai.