This grant is available to Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives, Enrolled Nurses and Student Nurses/Midwives. It makes small amounts of money quickly available to cover specific one-off expenses that have arisen from an exceptional and unexpected circumstance which affects your ability to study or practice. Examples include the inability to work due to injury, unexpected vehicle breakdown etc.
Foreseeable expenses associated with clinical practice placements will not be considered.
Grants of up to $500 are offered throughout the year. If your grant is approved you will be asked to supply your bank account number.
Applications are reviewed by the two Co-Chairs of NERF. The decision of the Committee is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
To complete this form you will need:
- Your NZNO membership number (you must be a current financial member)
- Scanned copies of quotes, invoices or receipts relating to the one-off expenses in question
- Scanned copy of a brief letter from your manager, counsellor, kaumatua or lecturer which supports your application
When you have gathered all these things together you are ready to complete the form below.
How to save a partial application
When you save your application half way through, you send an email to yourself which contains a link. Click this link in the email to continue with your application.
Note: If you later save your application half way through again, the link in your first email will stop working, Please delete the first email and use the link in the second email instead.