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<li>[[#one|Oral History Abstract 3]]
<br>000'01" Training How Organised?
<br>007'01" Balance between Study and Ward Work
<br>010'26" Reflections on Training Organisation
<br>012'50" Loyalty to Middlemore
<br>015'05" Most Value to Learning
<br>018'38" Nursing Curriculum
<br>021'13" Exams
<br>026'35" Celebration and Commitment to Studies
<br>031'40" Patients, Treatment and Technology
<br>036'42" Patients Treatment Continued
<br>040'50" Emotional Aspects
<br>045'07" Treatments and Equipment
<br>049'00" Weights and Lifting
<br>053'15" Nurses' Home
<br>057'20" Dining Rooms and Meals
<br>061'00" Uniforms
<br>064'14" Visitors</li>
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<td class="details"><h5>Training How Organised?</h5>Describes lectures and classes at <span>PRELIM SCHOOL. TUTOR SISTERS</span>, some doctors' lectures. Intravenous therapy, enemas. Not encouraged to ask questions.
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<td class="details"><h5>Balance between Study and Ward Work</h5>Describes travel to <span>AUCKLAND HOSPITA</span>L for <span>STUDY DAYS</span>, fitting in study around work. Recalls keeping up because very keen. Study covered specialties: infectious diseases, diseases of women, eye, ear, nose & throat, internal diseases, children. <br><br><span>SHORT PAUSE WHILE PHONE CHECKED</span>
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<td class="time">010'26"</td>
<td class="details"><h5>Reflections on Training Organisation</h5>Describes relationship of study to ward work and being 'on tour' for different experience. Reflects on perceptions of which hospital gave best training.
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<td class="time">012'50"</td>
<td class="details"><h5>Loyalty to Middlemore</h5>Describes student loyalty to <span>MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL [HOSPITAL HIERARCHY]</span>. Put down by other students as if the 'country cousins'. Relates saying 'Green Lane students are social conscious, Auckland students were study conscious and Middlemore students were unconscious'. Reflects on lessons learnt from this.
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<td class="details"><h5>Most Value to Learning</h5>Mentions lack of community experience in training. Mentions realising need for <span>NURSING THEORY</span>. Reflects on instinctive caring by nurses for patients rather than being taught. Recounts story of small boy dying of bone cancer.
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<td class="details"><h5>Nursing Curriculum</h5>Mentions changes in nursing <span>CURRICULUM [MATERNITY TRAINING]</span> but unaware of criticisms. Very practical training. <span>AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD</span> incentives for staff to stay including medal [<span>STAFF RETENTION</span>]. Recounts use of her <span>PRELIM</span> class photo in a recruitment poster (Grace in second row).
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<td class="details"><h5>Exams</h5><span>JUNIOR STATE EXAM</span> end of first year. Describes study, anxiety, social life, support of friends. [<span>OTAHUHU BAPTIST CHURCH YOUNG PEOPLE</span>]. 'My first work was to be a nurse, always.' Describes preparation for <span>EXAMS</span>, hospital exam prior to <span>SENIOR STATE EXAM</span> at end of three years.
Recalls some nurses would fail and repeat <span>EXAMS</span>.
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<td class="details"><h5>Celebration and Commitment to Studies</h5>Describes social activities with <span>OTAHUHU BAPTIST CHURCH</span> group and some nurses. No <span>ALCOHOL</span>. Beach visits. Friend <span>AUDREY MITCHELL</span> had a car which was unusual. In first year went for trip to <span>ROTORUA</span> together. Describes <span>MIDDLEMORE's NURSES' CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP</span> and her <span>FAITH</span> at time. Quotes Nurse's Prayer. Reflects that the Prayer brought together the practicalities of nursing and theory as a personal baseline for her. Thinks uncommon for nurses to seek a theory of nursing at the time.
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<td class="details"><h5>Patients, Treatment and Technology</h5>Describes the types of ward at <span>MIDDLEMORE</span>, nursing experience with traction and bones, surgery and medical conditions. Describes first time she experienced fainting in horror at a <span>LUMBAR PUNCTURE</span> procedure. Describes <span>OPERATING THEATRE</span> experience 'very scary and very regimented but amazing'.
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<td class="time">036'42"</td>
<td class="details"><h5>Patients Treatment Continued</h5>Recalls 'specialling' an agitated patient who threatened her. Felt unprepared to deal with it. Mentions <span>PLASTIC SURGERY</span> and <span>MIDDLEMORE's</span> specialties.
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<td class="time">040'50"</td>
<td class="details"><h5>Emotional Aspects</h5>Recalls coping personally with <span>DEATH</span> or talked to other nurses off duty. 'If I had to cry, I remember going into the linen room or the sluice room and you could have a cry by the sterilisers because it was steamed up anyway.' Drew on her earlier experience of <span>DEATH</span>.
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<td class="time">045'07"</td>
<td class="details"><h5>Treatments and Equipment</h5>Describes common drug for older people (<span>DIGOXIN</span> from digitalis plant) that could be dangerous and required extra nursing care. Cites associated mnemonic. Predominantly men with heart problems in <span>MEDICAL WARD</span>. Describes use of enema cans and bulky intravenous fluid equipment.
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<td class="time">049'00"</td>
<td class="details"><h5>Weights and Lifting</h5>Describes lifting, problem of fixed beds, use of pillows and bed as piece of equipment. 'It was satisfying to make a person comfortable.' Agrees some nurses would have left nursing due to back problems. Some had a <span>LAMINECTOMY</span> (removal of part of spine).
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<td class="details"><h5>Nurses' Home</h5>'Very regimented military <span>HOME SISTER</span>.' Thinks name was <span>SISTER GOUDIE</span>. Describes aspects of <span>NURSES' HOME</span> life. Sleep, room inspection. Some nurses came in after 10pm. Recalls loving baths. 'Get rid of aching bodies because they were aching. Our feet were sore, our bodies were aching most of the time'. Awareness of <span>MIDDLEMORE</span> work being heavier than elsewhere. Separate rooms 'our haven'. Recalls sharing and <span>FRIENDSHIPS</span>.
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<td class="details"><h5>Dining Rooms and Meals</h5>escribes dining room and <span>FOOD</span>. 'Typical and common was marble - mashed potato, marble carrot and parsnip, stewed up cabbage really white and corned beef - a good meal!'
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<td class="details"><h5>Uniforms</h5>Describes pale blue dress and white ward <span>UNIFORMS</span> and changes as progressed. Twin buttons on a shank. 'We always had to make time for buttoning'. Describes <span>LAUNDRY</span> process. Talks about <span>GROOMING</span>. Looking smart 'valued'. Impressed by well-groomed <span>GREAT BARRIER ISLAND NURSE Mrs McLEAN</span>.
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<td class="details"><h5>Visitors</h5><span>RULES</span> around visitors to <span>NURSES' HOME</span>.<br><br>FILE 3 ENDS 65 Mins 06 Secs
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