New Zealand nurses : caring for our people 1880-1950 / Pamela Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Pamela J. (Pamela Janet), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--New Zealand--History.

Nursing.

New Zealand.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Draws on a wealth of nurses' personal stories to explore the development of a distinctive Kiwi nursing culture ... that emerged in a range of different settings and circumstances, from homes, hospitals, rural backblocks and Māori settlements to war, disaster zones and pandemics"--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Narrating a history of New Zealand nursing

2. Nurse training in New Zealand

3. Becoming a New Zealand nurse

4. Brightening sunless lives

district nursing

5. The `intrepid nurse' in the backblocks

6. Nursing Maori, Maori nurses

7. Caring in conflict

the emotional labour of wartime nursing

8. Virus and tremor

nursing in disasters

9. Contesting `the modern nurse'

10. Building a nursing community and culture

11. Nursing at the southern edge of empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781990048326

1990048323

OCLC:

1292471330