Nayda Heays
Intensive Care Nurse, Hawkes Bay DHB, Hastings, NZ
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Ko Putauaki me Pōhatu oku maunga
Ko Whakatāne toku awa Ko Mataatua toku waka Ko Ngati Awa me Ngai Tūhoe oku iwi Ko Te Pahipoto me Ngai Teriu oku hapu Ko Nayda Heays toku ingoa No Aotearoa ahau Kei Ahuriri ahau enoho ana |
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I am a Registered Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at the Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. For 3 years I have shared a dual resource role with Associate Clinical Nurse Manager Julie Guiney as an Organ Donation Link Nurse. My primary focus is on the need to raise the profile of organ donation with Māori through developing education, wananga and ongoing cultural competency evaluation within the ICU environment and the wider community. I believe sharing and delivering this kaupapa guided by tikanga Māori practices will ensure cultural safety to empower Māori to have these informed conversations outside the grief and despair of ICU. "Whaia te matauranga hei oranga mō koutou - Seek knowledge for the sake of your wellbeing"
Organ Donation, A Maori Perspective & Regional Transplantation Hui Hawke's Bay
“How do we get Māori to see the value in organ donation, given that our need for receiving organs is so incredibly high?”
Dr Lance O’Sullivan
Hawke’s Bay presented Paetara o te Ora in October 2019 – the first ever Regional Transplantation Hui in Aotearoa. The kaupapa was created from research by Clinical Nurse Specialist Renal Merryn Jones “It’s hard to ask” identifying the barriers of asking for the live transplantation of kidneys with whānau and friends and whānau health inequities.
Māori Link Nurse Nayda Heays engaged in the co-creation to share her own project “Barriers to starting the kōrero about deceased organ donation from a Health Professionals Perspective” identifying unconscious bias, gaps in knowledge and the critical need to design cultural competency training specialising in the area of organ donation and Māori. Nayda hopes understanding leads to the confidence to have conversations among professionals increasing the capacity and capability to engage with potential donors/donor whānau.
Nationwide media coverage generated an alert to this crisis for Māori and the need to take this kaupapa to our communities. 3 North Island DHBs have reached out to learn about the design of the Hui to deliver to their own rohe.
“How do we get Māori to see the value in organ donation, given that our need for receiving organs is so incredibly high?”
Dr Lance O’Sullivan
Hawke’s Bay presented Paetara o te Ora in October 2019 – the first ever Regional Transplantation Hui in Aotearoa. The kaupapa was created from research by Clinical Nurse Specialist Renal Merryn Jones “It’s hard to ask” identifying the barriers of asking for the live transplantation of kidneys with whānau and friends and whānau health inequities.
Māori Link Nurse Nayda Heays engaged in the co-creation to share her own project “Barriers to starting the kōrero about deceased organ donation from a Health Professionals Perspective” identifying unconscious bias, gaps in knowledge and the critical need to design cultural competency training specialising in the area of organ donation and Māori. Nayda hopes understanding leads to the confidence to have conversations among professionals increasing the capacity and capability to engage with potential donors/donor whānau.
Nationwide media coverage generated an alert to this crisis for Māori and the need to take this kaupapa to our communities. 3 North Island DHBs have reached out to learn about the design of the Hui to deliver to their own rohe.