International Nurses' Day is 12 May. See some of our resources ranging from histories of hospitals and organisations to personal recollections and diaries.
2. 100 Years
New Zealand Military Nursing
N Z Army Nursing Service Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
1915 – 2015
Sherayl McNabb
‘As a Registered nurse myself with an aunt a prisoner in Changi Singapore
during WW2, I welcomed the opportunity to review this amazing book. This
is a big book in many ways- 500 pages, 390 images and probably not easy
to read in bed! The Princess Royal, Colonel in Chief, Royal New Zealand
Nursing Corps wrote the foreword acknowledging 2015 marking the
centenary of military nursing in New Zealand. I was surprised to read about
just how many wars the New Zealand Army Nursing Services had been
involved with. It started with the Boer war, through WW 1, WW2, Vietnam,
and many active and peace keeping roles in the Gulf war, Rwanda,
Bougainville,East Timor,and Afghanistan.TheauthorSherayl co- authored
afirst book on the history of the Royal New Zealand NursingCorps 25 years
ago. Her commitment to bringing this history up to date is truly
commendable. Sherayl outlines the struggle by nurses to care for soldiers
in war - where there are often greater losses from sickness and disease
than from the soldiers’ wounds. Sherayl begins the book with the role of
Florence Nightingale in the 1850s and nurses from the Crimea who made
New Zealand their home, through to the Royal Nursing Corps in 2015 It is
important to remember that New Zealand was the first country in the world
to have a full Nurses Registration Act in 1901 - a proud follow up of our
leadership intheworld women’s suffrage movement.I cannot do justiceto
this excellent record of interest to many of us with nursing links in our
families. It is a great read, and during this time we are commemorating
WW1 a wonderful addition to our resources.’ Dr Gay Williams NZSG 4772.
3. Across The Street; Across The World
A history of the Red Cross
in New Zealand 1915 – 2015
Margaret Tennant
The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital
A History
In this major history Linda Bryder traces the rise and fall
of National Women's over half a century in order to tell a
wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying
perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer
groups and patients to show how together their
dialogue shaped the nature of motherhood and
women's health in twentieth-century New Zealand"-
4. Nurse Maude
The First 100 Years
Vivienne Allan
The life of Sibylia Maude and the development of
the Nurse Maude Association.
Freed To Care, Proud to Nurse
100 years of the New Zealand Nurses
Organisation
Mary Ellen O’Connor
5. The First NHS
How John Tomley’s Work Led to Modern Healthcare
Emma Snow
We all think the NHS was first dreamed up by Nye Bevan when he
became minister of health in 1945. Yet experiments with the NHS and
welfare state in fact started many years before.
Inspired by a doctor who coined the phrase "national health service" in
1910, John Tomley and David Davies took steps to pilot the first ever
national health service, focusing on TB in Wales, the WNMA. Through
the findings of the WNMA's work, as well as John's work as a local
health commissioner and UK leader of the largest health service
providers, the friendly societies, John campaigned for effective
treatment for TB, including prevention and a national health service.
John successfully led the campaign for the government's Welsh TB
Inquiry, which led directly to the Beveridge Report and the founding of
the NHS and wider welfare state in 1948. His family then forgot about
his work, due to the ravages of a genetic disease, so John's story has
never been told. Meanwhile the NHS, which John helped to found, also
led to a cure for this disease for his great-great-granddaughter.
The moral of this surprising tale? If John can do it, any of us can. We
have what John described as the "golden keys' in our hands. By
understanding the crucial information John gave us from his life's
work, the importance of fighting all the Beveridge Report's Five Giants
at once, we can tackle the social determinants of health today, and
change people's lives for our generation and future generations." From
the flyleaf
6. Nurses of Auckland
The History of the General Nursing Programme
in the Auckland School of Nursing
Margaret Brown, Diana Masters, Barbara Smith
Appendices contain lists of nurses who
graduated from the Auckland School of Nursing,
1883 - 1990
7. Hearts, Hands, Minds
The Cardio-thoracic Nurses of Green Lane Hospital
Margaret Horsburgh, Heather Dawn Spinetto
A poignant and well-researched history of Green Lane's cardio-
thoracic unit: of interest to those who worked at, or have links to,
Green Lane Hospital; personal stories, recollections and photographs
are included; covers societal issues and the development of New
Zealand's health services; describes the evolution of heart surgery in
New Zealand; captures the highs and lows, the teamwork and
camaraderie of nurses and doctors.
Starship - Inside Our National Children’s
Hospital
Edited by Dr Lochie Teague
" Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital is a landmark New
Zealand institution. The passion and dedication of staff at all
levels shines from these pages, which detail how Starship
has grown and developed over the last 21 years. How does
an important national hospital get started? How does it grow
to meet the needs of its patients and to take in the changes
in modern medicine? How do the different departments
work and who do they look after? Find out in these pages, in
a major book published to celebrate 21 years since the
opening of the famous New Zealand national children's
hospital"
8. While You’re Away
Anna Rogers
New Zealand Nurses At War 1899 - 1948
To Work To Wed To Weep To Wander
Mabel Pollock - her experiences and
occupations from her nursing career to her
departure from New Zealand in 1974.
9. ANZAC Girls
The Extraordinary Story of our World War 1 Nurses
Peter Rees
By the end of World War 1, 45 Australian and New Zealand
nurses had died on overseas service, and over 200 decorated.
These were the women who left for war looking for adventure
and romance, but were soon confronted with challenges for
which their civilian lives could never have prepared them.
Their strength and dignity were remarkable.
Using diaries and letters Peter Rees takes us into the hospital
camps and the wards and the tent surgeries on the edge of
some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he
also allows the friendships and love of these courageous and
compassionate women to enrich their experiences, and ours.
Profoundly moving, this is a story of extraordinary courage and
humanity shown by a group of woman whose contribution to
the Anzac legend has barely been recognized in our history.
Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever.
Refer to the 2016 edition held under AUS.MIL.OCC for a central
section of photographs which are not included in the 2014
edition filed at NZ.MIL.OCC.
10. Petals & Bullets
Dorothy Morris
New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
Mark Derby
This book is based on the vivid, detailed, and evocative letters
New Zealand nurse Dorothy Morris sent from Spain and other
European countries. They have been supplemented by wide-
ranging research to record a life of outstanding professional
dedication, resourcefulness, and courage.
Dorothy Aroha Morris (1904-1988) volunteered to serve with Sir
George Young's University Ambulance Unit, and worked at an
International Brigades base hospital and as head nurse to a
renowned Catalan surgeon. She then headed a Quaker-funded
children's hospital in Murcia, southern Spain. As Franco's forces
advanced, she fled to France and directed Quaker relief services
for tens of thousands of Spanish refugees. Nurse Morris spent
the Second World War in London munitions factories, as welfare
supervisor to their all-female workforces. She then joined the
newly formed UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration,
working in the Middle East and Germany with those who had
been displaced and made homeless and destitute as a result of
the war. Dorothy Morris's remarkable and pioneering work in the
fields of military medicine for civilian casualties, and large-scale
humanitarian relief projects is told in this book for the first time.
11. I Was A Plunket Baby
100 Years of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society (Inc)
Jim Sullivan
The story of the first hundred years of the Royal New Zealand
Plunket Society, from 1907 when the infant death rate was
appallingly high through to 2007. Along the way skirmishes with the
Department of Health, the politicians and even, in the early days, the
medical profession. Through all this, Plunket has readily adapted to
the need for change and nurses and volunteers have continued to
care for over 90% of New Zealand infants. Plunket volunteers have
created an organisation in which nurses and mothers are the
controllers of their own destiny and a legacy for all New Zealanders,
almost all of whom can make the claim, "I was a Plunket baby!" The
text is detailed and includes extracts from official documents and
personal recollections, along with a wealth of illustrations to portray
this dramatic century.
A Voice for Mothers
The Plunket Society
and
Infant Welfare
1907-2000
Linda Bryder
A Suitable Job for Young Ladies
The Karitane Story 1907 – 2007
Joyce Powell
12. The Wilson Home
A Celebration of 75 Years 1937 – 2012
Patricia Jones
All Guts
No Glory
Nelson Tasman
Nurses and
Chaplains
of
World War One
Compiled by
Cheryl Carnahan
"In 2015 New Zealand Society Genealogists Nelson Branch, were
winners of the TrustPower Community Awards Heritage and
Environment category for 'Going Above and Beyond to mark an
important centenary.' Little has been written about the nurses and
less so the chaplains who served with the New Zealand Expedition
Force during World War One. Several members of the New
Zealand Society of Genealogists Nelson Branch have researched
the lives of many of those nurses and chaplains who had an
association with the Nelson Tasman area. This book captures the
brave and courageous nurses and chaplains who were often very
close to the firing line. Several chaplains were killed and 10 New
Zealand nurses went down with the ship when the Marquette was
torpedoed. The nurses worked in frozen, leaking tents and
draughty huts often wearing tin hats and having to rush to a
trench for safety when the hospitals were being bombed."--
13. Corsets To Camouflage
Women and War
Kate Adie 2003
Uniform is universally seen as both a stamp of
authority and of official acceptance. But the sight
of a woman in military uniform still provokes
controversy. Although more women are now
taking prominent roles in combat, the status
implied by uniform is often regarded as contrary
to the general perception of womanhood. This
study of the image of uniformed women, both in
conflict and in civilian roles throughout the 20th
century examines the extraordinary range of jobs
that uniformed women have performed, from
nursing to the armed services. Through
complementary correspondence and many
personal stories Kate Adie brings the enormous
and often unsung achievements of women in
uniform to life and looks at how far women have
come in a century which, for them, began
restricted in corsets and has ended on the
battlefield in camouflage.
