NRS Committee, Te Wāhanga Rangahau Tapuhi Roles
Lorraine Ritchie - Acting Chair
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Lorraine is a Nurse Consultant at Te Whatu Ora Southern, focusing on policy, projects and professional issues. She has been involved in nursing for over 30 years, and currently holds a role as a Professional Practice Fellow at the University of Otago Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies where she teaches and supervises Master’s students.
Lorraine's nursing background includes
- aged care and care of older people
- nursing education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- postnatal/antenatal nursing and
- management of an aged care facility
Her research interests focus on:
- Professional standards
- wellbeing of nurses
- older people’s health
- aged care
- social gerontology
- arts and health
Lorraine's primary research interest and experience is in qualitative methodologies, particularly narrative approaches. She published in national and international journals, and edited “Listening with my Heart” (2017), the inaugural book of poetry written by NZ nurses.
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Jon Gullidge - Treasurer
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Jon Gullidge is the Chief Nurse at Te Whatu Ora Taranaki, where he is responsible for ensuring patient safety and quality remain at the heart of the district agenda. He ensures the balance of safe patient care, financial stewardship, and high-performance standards.
Before his current role, Jon gained extensive experience in clinical leadership, education, and clinical practice in New Zealand and several of the UK’s largest NHS trusts. He is passionate about advancing Nurse-led care, initiatives, and services, and is committed to ensuring nurses can provide effective and exceptional patient-centred care.
Jon is currently pursuing a PhD at Auckland University of Technology, focusing on how acuity is operationalised and applied in practice within community mental health services. His research interests include using health methodologies to highlight systemic and social injustices while amplifying the voices of marginalised groups.
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Kim Monteiro - Acting Secretary and Social Media
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Kim Monteiro is the Clinical Lead for Medical Devices, Expert Advisory at Pharmac and provides clinical leadership to key strategic programmes, projects and initiatives towards best outcomes for all healthcare partners. He has completed a Masters in Nursing, and is a PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner.
Kim’s nursing background includes
- clinical practice in acute and community settings
- education of undergraduate nursing students and postgraduate nurses in the clinical and academic settings
- clinical leadership at local and national levels
- management of high value and high impact portfolio of health programmes and projects, and
- research presentations and publication at national and international forums.
Kim’s research interests include
- The Fundamentals of Care
- Implementation Science, and
- Care of populations with the highest health needs
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Nerissa Warbrick - Social Media
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Ko Tararua te Maunga
Ko Manawatu te Awa
Ko Kurahaupō te Waka
Ko Whatonga te Tangata
Ko Rangitāne me Te Arawa ngā Iwi
Ko Ngāti Hineaute me Te Rangitepaia ngā Hapū
Ko Rangiotu te Rohe
Ko Te Rangimarie te Marae
Ko Nerissa Warbrick tōku ingoa
Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa
With 25 years of clinical and academic experience, I have dedicated my career to advancing mental health and addiction services (MHAS) through both practice and education. My clinical expertise spans secondary care in acute settings including crisis response, general adult and Māori mental health, inpatient services, and community forensic mental health for both adult and youth populations. I am passionate about evidence-based practice, life-long learning, and professional development. I am committed to strengthening research in nursing, ensuring that knowledge translates into meaningful improvements in care.
Nerissa
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Maria Tutahi - Te Runanga Representative 
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Ko wai au?
Hōkai tū tapuwae
Ki runga o Nga Taumata te maunga
Whakahirahira o aku tīpuna
Kua ngaro i te ao nei!
Tauheke atu ki Ohinemataroa
Te wai kaukau o ngā mātua tīpuna!
Kia tū tangata whenua ahau ki tōku marae ko Tauarau!
Tu mai e kui Rongokarae, te mana tawhito o tua whakarere!
Te tari o te ora Rangimahana tena koe!
Ngati Rongo taku mana, taku ihi!
Ko Tuhoe he pou whenua, he pou tangata!
Mataatua te waka! Ko Toroa te tangata o runga!
Ka tauha kai te whare!
Tau ana!
“Tuhoe moumou kai, moumou taonga, moumou tangata I te po!”
Nga mihi maioha kia tatou. Ko Maria Tutahi toku ingoa no te Tiamana o Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa - Te Manawataki o Waikato. He mahi au ki a Tapuhi Māori I roto I the Whareheke Toto ki Te Wahatu Ora o Waikato.
My name is Maria Tutahi and I am the Te Runanga Chair for Te Manawataki o Waikato Region and I work as a Dialysis Nurse at Te Whatu Ora o Waikato
I am one of 10 Māori nurses employed in this area. My mahi allows me to practice holistically with my patients, which incorporates and recognises the uniqueness of my culture. The care that I give is based on those essential principles I learned as a student and are inclusive in my practice. These are the same principles that I as a Registered Nurse teach to my Netp and Tauira from Te Pukenga o Waikato and Wintec
I graduated with a Bachelor of Health Sciences Māori (Nursing) from Te Ōhanga Mataora Paetahi o Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi in Whakatane. I completed a Dual Competency Nursing Program, its foundation set firmly on the teachings of Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori. It is a one of a kind Nursing degree set and taught according to Wananga principles and I am both proud and honoured to be a foundation graduate of that program.
I am also Te Manawataki o Waikato Te Poari representative, a member of NZNO Regional Council - Midlands, a committee member for the Maranga Mai Scholarship and a member of this committeee
No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena tatou katoa
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Patricia McClunie-Trust - Special Projects
Dr Patricia McClunie-Trust is a Principal Lecturer at Wintec in the
- Master of Nursing
- Master of Professional Practice and
- Master of Nursing Science programmes.
She is a professional supervisor interested in capability development for advanced nursing practice. For the past fifteen years, she has supervised postgraduate research students undertaking projects and dissertations in
- nursing
- physiotherapy
- midwifery, and
- social care.
Patricia’s research focuses on professionalism and professional practice in nursing. She is a member of the GENNZAC international collaborative research team that aims to establish a core set of guiding principles related to graduate entry education and the nursing workforce.
Patricia's recent research explores how graduate-entry nursing students develop a professional sense of self as nurses.
Her governance roles include membership in the HRC-approved Wintec Human Ethics Research Group, Editor-in-Chief for the Kaitiaki Nursing Research journal, and she is also a lay member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors Ethics Committee.
ORCID profile
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Hina Karim - Newsletter
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Hina Karim is originally from Pakistan and moved to New Zealand in 2019. She completed her Masters in Nursing in 2016 and is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Research.
Hina works as a Research Nurse Specialist and Clinical Trial Coordinator at Te Whatu Ora Waitematā and Te Tūka Tumai Auckland. In her role, she manages and runs clinical trials in her unit, oversees all aspects from:
- study start-up to participant screening
- recruitment
- consent
- auditing and
- follow-ups.
Hina also serves as the NRS Newsletter Editor, where she enjoys sharing updates, news, and insights that foster engagement and learning across teams. She is deeply committed to:
- enhancing clinical research
- promoting evidence-based practices and
- fostering collaborative efforts to improve patient outcomes.
Hina’s Clinical Background includes:
- Critical Care
- Cardiology and
- Surgical Nursing.
Her Research Background and interests are:
- Quality of Life
- Nursing Redeployment
- Migrant Nurse's Cultural Competence
- Clinical Practices and
- Clinical Standards.
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Isaac Amankwaa - Membership
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Dr Isaac Amankwaa is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Auckland University of Technology and Adjunct Academic at the University of Canberra. He has over 20 years of clinical and academic experience across Ghana and Aotearoa New Zealand. He holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, where he applied implementation science to rights-based healthcare. He also completed an MSc in Advanced Nursing at the University of Nottingham.
His background includes:
- Clinical roles in acute and aged care
- Programme leadership and curriculum development
- Supervision of Master's and PhD research
- Editorial roles with PLOS ONE and BMC Nursing
His research focuses on:
- Health literacy among migrant and underserved populations
- Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis
- Assisted dying and nursing practice
- Implementation science in resource-constrained settings
He has published over 15 peer-reviewed papers and engages in community health through the Wintec Tauira-Assisted Clinic and leadership in the Ghanaian Community of New Zealand. His teaching applies Mātauranga Māori and equity principles to prepare nurses for diverse healthcare settings.
Isaac seeks opportunities to offer mentorship and collaborate on research aligned with health equity, nursing education, and implementation science.
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Sandra Bayliss - Professional Nursing Advisor
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