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Ko Awatea details
Ko Awatea is the District Health Board education website. Staff who have been with us for a while will have access to this website for additional training resources.
To access the Ko Awatea learning modules:
Log in with the waikatodhb username and password we provided to you (Details of this are e-mailed to you usually within a month of registering to work with us.).
Remember: when you log in, that your username is your waikatodhb email address, all in lower case.
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As a new user, you will need to fill in some additional details.
Fill in the details in the columns for your username, first name, surname, and personal e-mail address. Then put in the password we provided you.
Username will be your first name, followed by a full-stop, your second name followed by a full-stop, nova@waikatodhb.health.nz–> e.g.: jo.blogs.nova@waikatodhb.health.nz (all in lower-case letters).
Employee ID is your Nova Health ACE ID (the same username you used to log into this staff section of the Nova webpage.
Note: please change your password as soon as able, to your own personal one.
Always login to Ko Awatea using your .nova@waikatodhb.health.nz username . Never try to log in using your personal email address. Organisations outside the DHB need to use the @waikatodhb.health.nz account as their login username/email address.
The personal email address is for any communication from Ko Awatea Learn through forums, automated messages (e.g. ‘welcome to Manual Handling’), etc.
If you have problems, or have not received your ACE ID and password within a month or two of signing up with us, please contact clinicalcall@novahealth.co.nz
If you want to get into a range of DHB placements you will need to first complete the following:
Medical Screening Required:
Health Check Document (for: Hepatitis-B, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Tuberculosis (TB))
Recent Flu Vacine
General Requirements (All staff):
Manual/moving & handling – updated every 2 years
Infection control & Hand hygiene need to be updated yearly
National Vital Signs Early Warning Score
Additional Registered Nursing requirements:
Medicine management needs to be updated yearly. This is called Infusion Therapy and Medicine Management at WDHB. You will be eligible for a certificate once the minimum modules 1-3 are completed on the Ko Awatea site.
For those wanting to be assigned to shifts in WDHB, you need to have completed modules 1-5 (at a bare minimum, all of modules 1-3).
Module 6 is very useful, as it includes cannulation. The rest are interesting, but ‘optional’ at present.
Additional Requirement if interested in HRBC Mental Health and Addictions Services placements.
Levels of Observation inpatient services (MH&AS) 2017
We will prioritise staff who have also completed the Waikato DHB Orientation and Fire Safety training. As you know, we encourage additional education, the more training the better. There are many courses on the Ko Awatea site that are very interesting; at the very least, please have a look through some of the courses available.
Waikato DHB Orientation Course
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