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Nursing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

MURRAY, Judith Anne (Judy) interviewed by Seona Craig

 Record Group
Identifier: H0237
Overview In this interview Judy discusses and explains family history, Nurse Training and employment history, social life in Invercargill; referring to the Grand Hotel and the Brown Owl, before talking about marriage, family, and farming. Judy was involved in Riding for the Disabled for 25 years. She also talks about overseas travel.
Dates: 2015

NCF [Nurses Christian Fellowship] Southland Conference Programme, 1963

 Item — Box 2: Series S1482; Series S2019; Series S2695; Series S2704; Series S2705; Series S2706; Series S2713; Series S2728; Series S2735; Series S2736; Series S2737; Series S2740; Series S2745; Series S2746; Series S2754; Series S2759; Series S2760; Series S2768; Series S2771; Series S2772; Series S2773; Series S2774; Series S2776; Series S2777; Series S2778; Series S2780; Series S2781; Series S2782; Series S2786 [Barcode: Small Collections Box 2]
Identifier: S27680001

Nurses Christian Fellowship

 Record Group
Identifier: A0611

O'CONNELL, Rosanne Doreen interviewed by Janine Templeton

 Record Group
Identifier: H0244
Overview Rosie trained in Christchurch and after marrying a Southlander came to work at Riverton Hospital. In this interview she tells of the running of Riverton Hospital and staffing e.g. nurses and domestic staff, routines and procedures, various buildings, facilities and equipment, and the process of retaining nursing registration. She does a short comparison between the old hospital and Longwood/Bupa
Dates: 2016

PATTERSON, Edna Dorothy interviewed by Avis McDonald

 Record Group
Identifier: H0322
Overview Edna talks about family history and life when growing up. She talks about the vegetable garden, helping her father in the dairy factory where he was manager, games played and chores as a child. She describes her father’s work and the operation of the factory and cheese making. She details her mother’s role in the home and goes onto talk about her education until leaving school at 15. Her out of school activities included going to Balclutha to learn music and going to Dunedin to learn...
Dates: 2010

PEEK, Rachel interviewed by Lesley Gray

 Record Group
Identifier: H0148
Overview In this interview Rachel recalls her early life, family, schooling and choice to train as a nurse starting in 1955. She looks at training during these years through to he becoming the Chief Nurse in 1985. She also recalls describes and discusses aspects of hospital life during her employment, the history of Kew Hospital Buildings, the changes and mergers of the Southland Hospital Board with Otago; as well as some of the well-known medical personnel who worked at Kew Hospital.
Dates: 2010

SHAVE, Norma Irene Annetta interviewed by Rangimaria Suddaby and Shona Fordyce

 Record Group
Identifier: H0113
Overview Norma recalls her education and employment at a Thornbury farm, leisure activities e.g. fly fishing, dances, growing vegetables, learning to drive and doing the drivers licence test. At the age of 12 Norma decided she wanted to be a nurse and put her name down to become a nurse at Kew Hospital aged 20/21. She goes on to give an account of a fire at Kew Hospital in August 1939, the evacuation of patients and the repurposing of Lorne Hospital for patients. In 1950 she travelled to London to work...
Dates: 2012