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To encourage more Pacific nurses, Whitireia New Zealand in Porirua offers a Pacific nursing degree. These student nurses are learning how to monitor blood pressure.

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Allison Kirkman, Health practitioners – Māori and Pacific health practitioners, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28347/pacific-nurses (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.