Introduction
January 2026
Under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the role of the Nursing Council of New Zealand is to protect the health and safety of the public through mechanisms to ensure that nurses are competent and fit to practise. This includes setting standards of ethical conduct.
The Council is seeking views on proposed changes to its standards on appropriate ethical and professional conduct for nurses. The Council wants your views on a new draft Code of Conduct for nurses, to make sure it sets the right standards to protect the health and safety of health consumers.
Consultation closes at 5pm Monday 9 March 2026.
The full consultation document is available here.
How to submit
You can choose to complete this survey or you can choose to provide more substantive feedback via a submission template. If you are completing this survey, your responses will be anonymous. We will have no way of identifying who you are.
If you are submitting on behalf of an organisation, please complete the submission template.
If you are submitting on behalf of an organisation, please complete the submission template.
What we will do with your submission
We will review and consider all feedback, which will only be used to inform advice to our Board. We will publish a summary of the feedback on our website.