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Looking for a role that combines professional satisfaction with an incredible lifestyle? At Taupō Health Centre, we are proud to provide high-quality, equitable healthcare to our community – and we would love you to join us. Our clinic is a busy General Practice with an on-site Urgent Care Clinic, caring for approximately for 11,000 enrolled patients, as well as providing care for casual patients. We also provide after-hours support on Saturdays and Public Holidays on a rostered basis in...

Nurse Practitioner Primary Care—Make an Impact, Without Giving Up Balance Bring your expertise to a trusted general practice where you’ll have the autonomy to lead care, the support to thrive and the time to enjoy life beyond work. Are you an experienced Nurse Practitioner looking for a role where your judgement is trusted, your ideas are welcomed and your work creates a lasting difference? This is your opportunity to practise at the top of your scope in a team that genuinely values what...

Nurse Practitioner - Queenstown Queenstown Medical Centre has been part of the local community for more than 50 years. We’re proud of the trusted relationships we’ve built, within our team, with our patients, and across our wider community. With three practices located in Queenstown, Frankton, and Jacks Point, we offer a full range of primary care services, with urgent care provided from our Queenstown site. The Role We’re looking for an experienced NP who’s passionate about delivering...

Lead with integrity Deliver transformation Protect public safety The Nursing Council of New Zealand is the statutory regulator responsible for ensuring nurses are competent and fit to practise, and for protecting the health and safety of the public through effective regulation of the nursing profession.Council is seeking a Registrar who will be responsible for ensuring all statutory and regulatory decisions are lawful, robust and defensible under the Health Practitioners Competence...

Lead with integrity Deliver transformation Protect public safety The Nursing Council of New Zealand is the official statutory body that governs the nursing profession. Established under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, its primary purpose is to protect public health and safety by ensuring all practicing nurses are competent, safe, and fit to provide care. The organisation is in a pivotal period where public trust, regulatory excellence, and organisational transformation...

While identical twins have fingerprints that are more alike than those of unrelated individuals, they are still unique1, having formed prenatally by finger position, amniotic fluid dynamics, and chronicity (the number of placentas in multiple pregnancies). There is about 20% random development noise that produces this unique finding even among genetically identical twins.Fingerprints are a simple metaphor clinicians can use when explaining to patients why “but my twin doesn’t have this” isn’t...