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| − | |audio_description_one=Born in 1931, Joan Tait (nee Wellington) grew up as one of six children on her family farm in Wharehuia, Taranaki. Her father was a farmer and her mother had been a midwife before she married. Joan describes having always wanted to be a nurse, influenced in a large part by her mother’s career, as well as her aunt who was a registered general nurse. As a young girl she read all the nursing books she could get her hands on, even her mother’s nursing notes. | + | |audio_description_one=Born in 1931, Joan Hellena Tait (nee Wellington) grew up as one of six children on her family farm in Wharehuia, Taranaki. Her father was a farmer and her mother had been a midwife before she married. Joan describes having always wanted to be a nurse, influenced in a large part by her mother’s career, as well as her aunt who was a registered general nurse. As a young girl she read all the nursing books she could get her hands on, even her mother’s nursing notes. |
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|audio_description_two=Joan began her nursing training at Hawera Hospital in 1951. On the wards a significant proportion of first-year students’ duties revolved around cleaning. This involved cleaning and sterilising equipment such as bedpans, bowls and tooth mugs, hand basins and toilets. Despite all the cleaning, there was some patient contact as well. There was always a list of patients to be sponged before preparing patients' breakfast and feeding those that needed to be fed. After morning tea the student assisted the middle duty nurse with patient pressure area care if the patient was bed ridden. In the afternoons those patients that weren't sponged in the morning had their turn. There were plenty of bedpans both morning and afternoon to be given out as no one was taken to the toilet. Responsibilities increased over time as nurses progressed through training. Second-year (middle) nurses, for example, would collect sputum and check for blood and would carry out diabetic urine tests. | |audio_description_two=Joan began her nursing training at Hawera Hospital in 1951. On the wards a significant proportion of first-year students’ duties revolved around cleaning. This involved cleaning and sterilising equipment such as bedpans, bowls and tooth mugs, hand basins and toilets. Despite all the cleaning, there was some patient contact as well. There was always a list of patients to be sponged before preparing patients' breakfast and feeding those that needed to be fed. After morning tea the student assisted the middle duty nurse with patient pressure area care if the patient was bed ridden. In the afternoons those patients that weren't sponged in the morning had their turn. There were plenty of bedpans both morning and afternoon to be given out as no one was taken to the toilet. Responsibilities increased over time as nurses progressed through training. Second-year (middle) nurses, for example, would collect sputum and check for blood and would carry out diabetic urine tests. | ||
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|audio_description_seven=Joan went on to teach a return-to-nursing training programme. This involved teaching updated skills and techniques to nurses re-entering the workforce. She also recognised that some women wanted to be brought up to date with new methods and equipment so that they could be ‘out in the community’ helping rather than returning to work. Voluntarily, Joan initiated an evening course for retired nurses to learn new nursing practices so that they could assist in their communities. | |audio_description_seven=Joan went on to teach a return-to-nursing training programme. This involved teaching updated skills and techniques to nurses re-entering the workforce. She also recognised that some women wanted to be brought up to date with new methods and equipment so that they could be ‘out in the community’ helping rather than returning to work. Voluntarily, Joan initiated an evening course for retired nurses to learn new nursing practices so that they could assist in their communities. | ||
|audio_file_seven=Joan_Tait_audio_07.mp3 | |audio_file_seven=Joan_Tait_audio_07.mp3 | ||
| − | |audio_description_eight=In the 1980s Joan took on a role as practice nurse and receptionist at a doctors’ clinic. During this time she also cared for her parents and father-in-law who had failing health. Joan maintained her practising certificate until 1988. | + | |audio_description_eight=In the 1980s Joan took on a role as practice nurse and receptionist at a doctors’ clinic. During this time she also cared for her parents and father-in-law who had failing health. Joan maintained her practising certificate until 1988. Joan died in 2022. |
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TAIT, Joan Hellena (nee Wellington). Passed away peacefully on Sunday evening 1 May 2022.
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