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Staff NurseBecoming a STAFF NURSE after graduating, giving more individualised patient care, working with doctors. Describes. [Sister GRANDISON, Ward 4 (medical) at MIDDLEMORE, Miss BARKER (Assistant Matron) and Miss CLELAND (Matron)]. Describes FRIENDSHIP Sister Grandison and Miss Barker. |
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Maternity NursingMATERNITY NURSE TRAINING. Describes practices at time including fathers not usually being present [DR AND MRS LILEY]. Experience influenced her views on how CHILDBIRTH should be. Describes own choice of maternity hospital [GRANTLY DICK-READ and Dr SPACKMAN]. |
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Post Maternity Training Bible Training InstituteDescribes finishing four years with AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD (1960). Received medals and prize [Miss MILLAR, Matron]. Describes GRACE (in 1961) and ALAN going to BTI (BAPTIST TABERNACLE, QUEEN STREET, and then in LINCOLN ROAD, HENDERSON). Bible studies and communication training. MARRIAGE January 1962. Health problems [GLANDULAR FEVER] Alan at TEACHERS' COLLEGE, then GLADSTONE ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL. Grace's PREGNANCY [daughter MICHELLE BENSON born at BELLEVUE PRIVATE HOSPITAL]. |
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Part Time Work after MarriageDescribes being a mother and working at WARRENGATE PRIVATE HOSPITAL, MT ALBERT. Describes patients, medications, nursing care and contrast with public hospitals. |
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King Country Te Kuiti HospitalAlan got TEACHING job at MAPIU SCHOOL [between TE KUITI and TAUMARUNUI]. Lived at ARATAURA. Describes life and work by both in school and Alan drove school bus. MIDDLEMORE colleague came to live at KOPAKI nearby. Describes SOCIALIZING at the time. Recalls encounter groups at GREAT BARRIER ISLAND, started to build own place in the 1970s. |
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Te Kuiti HospitalWorked as NIGHT SUPERVISOR around 1966. Daughter KAREN BENSON born TE KUITI HOSPITAL. Describes TE KUITI HOSPITAL. Describes skill of Indian-born surgeon MR AZAIREH. |
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Dannevirke HospitalDescribes career move for Alan so Grace could work full-time [DANNEVIRKE HOSPITAL, TAHARAITI SCHOOL]. Describes involvement with MAORI MORMON community of TAHARAITI. Influence on family's lives and thinking. Learned about TREATY OF WAITANGI. Learned about DEATH, dying and TANGI. |
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Grace's CareerRecalls how they planned the CAREER of each. Alan involved NEW ZEALAND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE [NZEI]. Thinks unusual at time. Alan able to look after children also. Worked as AFTERNOON and NIGHT SUPERVISOR, then took FULL TIME CHARGE NURSE (MEDICAL SURGICAL WARD). Contrasts MIDDLEMORE and DANNEVIRKE. TEAM NURSING starting and more REGISTERED NURSES on shifts. Describes closing of REGISTERED NURSE TRAINING SCHOOL at DANNEVIRKE mid 1960s and move to 18 months COMMUNITY NURSE TRAINING. Describes her desire to teach mid 1970s. |
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Teaching and Further EducationDescribes beginning of own EDUCATION to be a teacher (MASSEY UNIVERSITY, BACHELOR OF ARTS). Became interested in movement of NURSING EDUCATION. Involved in REGISTERED NURSES ASSOCIATION as nursing training moved to TECHNICAL INSTITUTES. |
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Work as Nurse TutorRecalls challenge between theory and practice of teaching and teaching on the ward. Attended WELLLINGTON TEACHERS COLLEGE course for tutors in hospital schools of nursing. Learned how to teach and lecture. Six weeks then advanced course. Stayed at WELLINGTON HOSPITAL with MISS BONNER [previously MATRON of DANNEVIRKE and was PRINCIPAL of WELLINGTON].
DANNEVIRKE HOSPITAL enrolled course. Describes women doing it and type of nursing undertaken. Grace puts her view that COMMUNITY NURSE training didn't really fit as they always had to work under supervision. Reflects on own growth as a teacher of nursing. Quite a few MAORI on community nursing course. |
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Further Career GoalsCAREER DEVELOPMENT. Wanted to teach in a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. Describes unsuccessful application for PRINCIPAL NURSE at DANNEVIRKE HOSPITAL. Time to leave DANNEVIRKE. Accepted MIT [MANUKAU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SOUTH AUCKLAND] as tutor. Describes reasons for accepting [JAN GRANT, YVONNE SHADBOLT]. Alan got job at WINDY RIDGE SCHOOL on NORTH SHORE. |
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Registered Nurses Association InvolvementInvolved DANNEVIRKE BRANCH NZRNA [LATER NZNO] many years. On local association Council and two years as President of branch. Organising meetings, going to conferences, being very aware of what NZNO were doing. Describes changes in nursing education [NAN KINROSS at MASSEY and SCHOOL OF ADVANCED NURSING in WELLINGTON] and being involved. Describes personal focus on professional nursing and education, theory needed for nursing. DANNEVIRKE HOSPITAL the hub for NZRNA. Mostly hospital nurses, some district and public health nurses. Keen group had social dinners, went to conferences, study days. Some opposed change. |
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Nursing as a Career in the 1970sDescribes HIERARCHY of MEDICINE, PHYSIOTHERAPY, NURSING and challenge for nursing of identifying its specialty alongside other professionals. FLORENCE NIGHTGALE trying to teaching that back in 1860. Autonomy not as easy to see as in nursing as other professions. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS came up as a specialty. |
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Move to Manukau Institute of Technology 1982Describes professional transition from teacher to lecturer in move to MIT. Refers colleague BEV JOHNSON. Describes relationship with students and teaching work. Refers MIDDLEMORE. Reflects on own training as a nurse and modern education including ethics, communication skills, cultural safety and the TREATY OF WAITANGI. |
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Changes to Structure of CourseRefers to changes to nursing qualification and CURRICULUM at MIT. DIPLOMA OF NURSING. BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCE. BACHELOR OF NURSING. |
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Further Education 1990sDescribes own further EDUCATION in 1990s. AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY. BACHELOR OF EDUCATION. VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON. MASTERS DEGREE. 'Best years of my life'. Refers JILL WHITE, MARGIE MARTIN, SHERYL MOSS. Part time study while working full time (1996-1999). Describes support of husband Alan. |
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Reflections on StudyReflects on being a student, stress of working and studying, health issues. |
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Changes in Medicine and Nursing Over the YearsReflects on nursing as a speciality of working with human responses to their health problems. Nurses need a problem solving approach. Whatever technology or drugs available, nursing always there with its basic premise of caring and responding to the patient. Teaching nurse to look at the patient who has all the monitors and drains, and touch their skin, and feel them and be there for them. |
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RetirementReflects on career, changes in nursing and new developments in teaching nurses. Refers MIDDLEMORE and COUNTIES MANUKAU HEALTH BOARD.
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