NETP - Expansion Programme

Primary Health Care Nursing

The vision for Primary Health Care nursing is to create an environment that enables nurses to provide integrated comprehensive nursing care to individuals and population groups in New Zealand primary health care settings, and that strengthens the primary heath care team towards improving health for all.

Primary health care nurses work autonomously and collaboratively to promote, improve, maintain and restore health. Primary healthcare nursing encompasses population health, health promotion, disease prevention, wellness care, first point of contact and disease management across the lifespan. The setting and the ethnic and cultural grouping of the people determine models of practice. Partnership with people- individuals, family, whaanau, communities and populations-to achieve the shared goal of health for all, is central to primary health care nursing.

Primary health care nursing is delivered in a variety of settings in city, urban and rural areas, in partnership with individual, families or population groups and will provide for case management of individuals across the primary secondary and tertiary interface.

The PHC nursing team within Counties Manukau District Health Board are working in partnership with all nurses working in the community to improve our population’s health

The establishment of the NETP – Expansion Programme within CMDHB enables the New Graduate Nurse to follow in their goals and aspirations for Primary Health Care Nursing without first having to gain experience in a tertiary centre. The programme has extended to the Primary Care arena having established good relationships between the DHB and a variety of primary providers.   

• Primary Health Organisation’s (General Practices) (PHO)
• Non-Government Organisation’s (NGO)
• Residential Care Facilities (RCF)