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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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