Touring parts of Northland with the late Noeline Warmington, then Te Runanga chair;profiling migrant nurses;covering a myriad of nursing conferences including South Pacific Nurses fora and the International Council of Nurses 25th quadrennial congress in Melbourne in 2013;working on our 2008 centennial issue marking 100 years of continuous publication of the journal;and getting to know cultural safety pioneer Irihapeti Ramsden, who advised us on our special cultural safety issue in February 2001 The scenarios, which primarily explore racist and homophobic attitudes and how to confront them, have proved an effective teaching tool, and were made to mark 20 years since cultural safety was included in nursing and midwifery education [ ]I leave with gratitude - for the opportunity to hone my writing, editing and page design skills, and to enter in such depth the worlds of nursing and health
A Kai Tiaki journey reaches its end