Nursing - Study and teaching

By: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation; Langridge, Yvonne, active 2000

Reference: OHColl-0599

Description: Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Quantity: 21 printed abstract(s). 26 C60 cassette(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 21 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 2011-2013

By: Inch, Barbara Margaret, 1953-

Reference: OHColl-1032

Description: Interviews with eleven Christchurch School of Nursing PMH [Princess Margaret Hospital] graduates class 1971-1974. Interviews were conducted between 2011 and 2013 by interviewer Barbara Inch (except for the interview with Barbara Inch, conducted by Michelle Bradley). Interviews discuss early family life and family history; leaving home for the first time; experiences at the Christchurch School of Nursing living and working together as students; women's health and reproductive issues; and working with patients, and the ongoing connections with other graduates. Abstracted by Barbara Moorhouse. Project received an Award in Oral History from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2011 and 2012. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 11 interview(s). 23 digital sound recording(s). 47 Electronic document(s) digital abstracts, agreements, biographical information forms, and supporting documents. 24 electronic scan(s). 14 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 10 digital photograph(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 2 folder(s) supporting documents nd biographical information forms. Search dates: 2011 - 2013 Number of interviews/events: 11

Date: 6 July 1993 - 06 Jul 1993

From: National Council of Women: Narratives from a century - oral history project

By: Sandford, Gladys Anne, 1909-2002

Reference: OHInt-0387/22

Description: Gladys Anne Sandford (Sandy) born Napier. Gives details of her parents who were South Islanders, her father's jewellery shop which burnt down and the family farm in Taranaki. Was only member of family to have secondary education - refers to Government financial assistance. Describes Manaia School, the large Maori roll, sport and the curriculum. Recalls soup kitchens, general unemployment and being out of work herself for a year during the Depression. Mentions New Zealand Wars with reference to Ernie Betts, a neighbour, who fought. Describes her family, the Manaia community and leisure including birthdays and picnics. Discusses nursing career and training in both theatre and maternity nursing. Worked for Army Base Hospital, taking her to Fiji, Cairo and Bari, Italy (3 years). Recalls introduction to penicillin. Describes typhoid outbreak in Cairo and gives details of nursing in Cairo. On returning to civilian life took job in charge of Maternity Annex in Lower Hutt for nineteen years. Comments on nurses' pay. Talks about working for Plunket and helping set up the nursing degree. Talks about involvement with the National Council of Women in the Hutt and her experience as President of the Hutt Branch. Describes input into health issues in NCW. Gives reasons for the setting up of the Polynesian Festival. People mentioned include: Mary Dowse, Hilda Burke, Mrs Murphy and Marion Akroyd. Discusses importance of women's demands for Equal Rights. Mentions looking after her mother from 1946 to 1970. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Howick Interviewer(s) - Mary Tallon Venue - Howick Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1458.

Date: 16 October 1995

By: Perkins, Jane, 1961-2011

Reference: OHColl-1491-01

Description: An interview with Margaret Williams discussing her life. Interview took place on 16 October 1995. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 Interview(s). Search dates: 16/10/1995

Date: [1950-1973]

From: Pedersen, Doris Taur, 1907-2001 : Papers relating to her career in nursing

Reference: MS-Papers-7072-6

Description: The story of public health nursing in New Zealand (1966); `Early nursing history of East Cape health district; `Gerontology and geriatrics' by I M Shaw (1973) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1920,1922-1923

From: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992 : Diaries and papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10108-004

Description: Diaries covering her years in New Zealand training as a nurse in Wellington and later Masterton. No diary for 1921 Quantity: 1 folder(s) 3 items.

Date: [ca 1934-1950]

By: McDonald, Anne Langley, 1926-2010

Reference: MS-Papers-6910

Description: Mainly letters from McDonald to her nursing colleague Miss Ross and to her family during her time spent in England and Europe while she attended the Florence Nightingale Foundation course organised in connection with the College of Nursing at Bedford College, London, and duty tour of Central Europe, Canada and United States (1935-1936). Also includes newspaper clippings relating to her career, ephemera and printed material on nursing. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.11 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Letters written by Ruth Bridges and newspaper cuttings were given to G McLean by Miss Ross who thought a book should be compiled on Ruth's life. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Loose photographs, photo album together with mss pages removed from the album which comment on the photos etc in the album (PAColl-9312)..

Date: 1998-1992

By: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992

Reference: MS-Group-0195

Description: The diaries and papers cover Bridget Francois' life from her school days, through her emigration to New Zealand, her career as a nurse in Europe, Ireland, Kentucky, USA, the West Indies, Australian mining camps and Nauru as well in New Zealand. Included are correspondence, papers and reminiscences, short stories and other literary papers, book reviews, news clippings and writings on various topics as well as material relating to her first husband, Dr Walter Vincent Tothill. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 90-113, MSX-2892 Arrangement: Bridget kept in her diaries loose letters, programmes and other papers relating to her activities. Since they form an intricate whole with her diary entries, we have kept them with the diary series Descended from the actress Adelaide Ristori, Bridget was orphaned in early life and adopted by a New Zealand visitor to London, who arranged for her education in England. She rejoined her guardian in New Zealand after World War I, qualified as nurse, returned to Britain for further training, and travelled extensively as a nurse, working in Europe, Kentucky USA, the West Indies where she met her first husband, Dr Vincent Tothill, and Nauru. During the war the couple practiced in the Northern Territory with Chinese wolfram miners. On her return to New Zealand, she worked in Russell and lived in South Africa. On the death of Vincent, she travelled before moving to Nelson as matron of Nelson Hospital where she married again. She wrote extensively, including fiction, and kept a detailed diary of her life from her schooldays to her death. Quantity: 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Ms (carbon copies), typescripts, printed matter

Date: 14 April 1989 - 14 Apr 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: McArtney, Thelma, 1912-2002

Reference: OHInt-0058/10

Description: Thelma McArtney gives details about her family background, her father's employment history, including his time in charge of Larnach's Castle while it was a psychiatric institution, her mother's musical abilities, family health, her parents' religious and political beliefs, their attitudes to smoking and alcohol and their ideas on discipline. Recalls the importance of both reading and music in her early life, giving details of books read and of her piano lessons. Details her educational history, commenting on teachers, subjects, participation in sport and sex education. Comments on the effect of the Depression on her family. Gives details of her nursing training and employment and gives reasons why she chose to work in mental health area. Describes her marriage to Kenneth McArtney and gives details of his family background, attitude to reading, his health and death from cancer in 1950, his war years as a pianist in the camps in Alexandria (Egypt) and his career in the Education Board, in Napier, Wanganui and Wellington. Describes living with various members of her family in the South Island after her husband's death and how she became involved with the Patearoa Country Library Service library while she was there. Describes settling in Palmerston and taking over the local Country Library Service library. Details pay, collections, visit of first book van with Field Librarian Owen Simmance, living at the library, introducing children's books and loan system and comments on the run down state of the Palmerston library. Details becoming Librarian at the Ashburton Public Library in 1958, pay rates, working with the local Town Clerk, the state of the library when she arrived, getting a loan of Country Library Service books and two staff being sent by Jean Wright from Christchurch to assist in re-establishing the library. Describes her work to build up the library, the special loan collections from the National Library, new staff, raising the image of the library in the community, attending conferences, writing reports on the need for a new building and the visits from overseas libraries. Describes the building of the new library. Recalls doing the Library Certificate training, 1956-1959, talks about G T Alley and Jean Wright, the difference between National Library and other libraries and the importance of going to conferences. Details her move to Waimairi County Library in 1967, being responsible for setting up library service, staff appointments, building up the book stock, planning the new building, problems with associated libraries, readers and staff and the relationship with Country Library Service and National Library. Recalls withdrawal of Enid Blyton books and being responsible for book selection. Notes that she established the Redwood and the Fendalton library during this time. Describes working at the Canterbury University Engineering Library, 1971-1973. Talks about Courtney Shearer who was in charge of this library and discusses difficulties working in a library where she was not in charge and did not know the stock and subject matter. Describes her retirement and move back to Ashburton and reflects on her library career. Venue - Ashburton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mrs McArtney's home at Ashburton Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains photocopy of a New Zealand Woman's Weekly interview with Thelma McArtney about the Ashburton Public Library, dated 8 February 1965. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002040, OHC-002041, OHC-002042 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2602, 2603, 2604, 2605, 2606, 2607 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 305. Printed abstract contains a portrait photograph of Thelma McArtney dated July 1945; a photograph of Thelma McArtney and Russell Sutherland at the launching of book `Land of the Bog Cotton' at Ashburton Public Library in 1960; a photograph of the Ashburton Public Library staff including Thelma McArtney in 1966 and a photograph including Thelma McArtney dated 5 March 1988 taken at the marriage of Monica McKone to Roger McArtney. Search dates: 1912 - 1989

Date: 17 March 1989 - 17 Mar 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Beamish, Hilda Marama, 1917-2010

Reference: OHInt-0058/02

Description: Hilda Marama Beamish gives details of her paternal and maternal family background and talks about her siblings. Describes her early childhood in Ashburton and discusses her fathers work, his respect for Maori, her parents attitudes to religion, politics, alcohol, smoking and discipline. Mentions her own deepening faith and current church activities. Recalls her education in Ashburton and at Craighead Diocesan school in Timaru. Comments on the teachers and classes she enjoyed, the accommodation, her attitude to boarding and mentions taking up and then stopping smoking. Recalls discussions about childbirth, sexuality and sex. Talks about going home for periods during her schooling because of family ill health. Describes Sam's schooling, being close to him and his death by drowning. Details her nursing training at Ashburton Hospital, commenting on the influence of her nursing mother. Talks about her year at home before training. Recalls her impressions of the Depression and its effects on Ashburton. Describes her nursing career at New Plymouth and Hastings hospital and studying maths and science at night school. Comments on the effects of World War II. Recalls how she met her husband, Dennis Hamilton Beamish, her first visits to Kohatunui, their courtship when he was home on leave and their marriage in 1944. Gives details of Kohatunui homestead and the Beamish family background. Describes how she first became involved with the Country Library Service and how she established a `B' library in her home at Kohatunui. Details the first book van visit and talks about driver Eve Franklin who was an outstanding and long serving field librarian. Describes the system for allocating and returning books, the times the book van arrived and the effect the book van had on the community. Talks about various field librarians. Mentions the four other `B' libraries in the district and what happened to them. Comments on the layout of the book van. Details the types of books that were popular, users of the service and comments on the differences between men and women using the service. Describes her contact with the Country Library Service administration and refers to L A Barker, the Regional Director. Describes the ending of the service and the change to an `E' Library service. Comments on other ways people got access to books. Notes the changes in rural communities, the move to `user pays', and the impact of television. Talks about reading habits and what she got out of running the library. Comments on changes in the health system. Notes of the link between nursing and library work, the benefit of reading to children and the Country Library Service. Venue - Hastings Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mrs Beamish's home at Kohatunui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002043, OHC-002044, OHC-002045 Tape numbers - NZOHA - 2614, 2615, 2616, 2617, 2618, 2619 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0306. Search dates: 1917 - 1989

Date: 12 April 1989 - 12 Apr 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: O'Connor, Margaret, 1926-2008

Reference: OHInt-0058/07

Description: Margaret O'Connor describes her family background and gives details of her parents' jobs as teachers, noting the effect of having her father as headmaster at her school. Talks about being in Napier during the 1931 earthquake and the family moving to Wellington for a period after the earthquake. Discusses her parents' involvement with the Church of England, their lack of interest in politics and how important reading was to the family. Details the books she read as a child, her membership of the Napier Library, reading the newspaper as a child and comments on how her reading patterns have changed. Details her schooling, her father's opposition to her becoming a nurse, her subsequent shorthand training and her eventual training as a nurse. Describes her time in the Women's Auxilliary during World War II. Talks about her nursing career, including her time at Lister Private Hospital in Gisborne, nursing in the Australian outback, becoming a Sister at Tauranga Hospital and notes the reasons she did not continue nursing. Describes meeting and marrying Basil (Snow) O'Connor, his background and decision to become an orchardist, their move to Kerikeri and the orchard they took over. Comments on the roads in the North. Gives first impressions of the Kerikeri area. Comments on the many clubs in the area and lists those she became involved with. Talks about the number of Europeans there, particularly Dalmatians and Dutch, and notes that there were not many Maori. Talks about land values and climate. Gives background details of the development of the Kerikeri Public Library and various buildings it was housed in, the people involved, the school room library, introducing the Dewey System and subscription, rental fee, fine and reservation systems. Discusses bequests, donations and Country Library Service book van selections. Mentions Bonny Cron, Isabella Godbert, Dulcie Hutton and Sandra Kemp. Talks about the voluntary nature of the library work and details the work done by the paid library assistant. Talks about the growth in library membership, increase in membership fee and opening hours and popularity of various types of books. Describes the book van visit routine. Mentions the van drivers including Jim Sutherland and describes the end of the book van service. Talks about budget considerations in decisions made about requests and the numbers of books borrowed. Describes young people's library use pattern. Talks about the committee raising money for the new building. Venue - Kerikeri Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs O'Connor's home at Kerikeri Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002058, OHC-002059 Tape numbers - OHA CLS/ 2734, 2735, 2736 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 311. Printed abstract contains photograph of the Kerikeri library, a photograph of Margaret O'Connor with grandaughter Alice and husband Basil dated ca 1987 and a photograph of Margaret O'Connor and son David in Whangarei dated ca 1958. Search dates: 1926 - 1989

Date: 22 Oct 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Francis, Margaret Eunice, 1920-1996

Reference: OHInt-0314/06

Description: Talks about her childhood in Whitianga where her father was a farmer and then ran the general store. Describes her mother as a `war bride' from Great Britain who found living in Whitianga a shock. Talks at length about primary school, transport, camping, after school activities, Whitianga society and family interrelationships. Describes their move to Mount Maunganui in her teen years largely for the education of her brothers. Discusses her father's business problems. Talks about doing domestic work before doing her nursing training, hospital work at Kawhia and strenuous nursing training at Waikato Hospital. Describes the nurses' social lives and lack of sex education. Talks about her parents living in Gisborne, her father's cancer and meeting her husband Jim Francis after World War II. Recalls early contact with Plunket as a mother, followed by committee involvement. Talks about the differences between Plunket and public health nurses. Comments on the value of the Plunket Society and campaigns against hydatids, measles and polio. Describes being President of the Gisborne branch for 10 years and a member of the Plunket Council for 14 years. Venue - Gisborne : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004814;OHC-004815 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 866. Portrait photograph of Margaret Francis in October 1992

Date: 15 May 1993

From: Nurses and Midwives Oral History Project

By: Cathie, Alison Gray, 1913-2008

Reference: OHInt-0138/2

Description: Alison Gray Cathie born Wellington. Describes family background. Recalls starting nursing at Wellington Hospital in 1933. Gives details of nursing care for patients with pneumonia and tuberculosis. Recalls work in ENT (ear, nose and throat) and care for cataracts and glaucoma. Went private nursing and refers to Dr John Twhigg (Twigg) (GP). Describes nurses bureau at 1 Kensington Street. Recalls travelling to England (1939) on the `Rangitiki' (ship) with friend Daphne Allen and working at Great Ormond Children's Hospital, London. Talks about outbreak of World War II and describes evacuation of patients to Wellhouse Cottage Hospital, Barnett. Describes return journey to New Zealand in blacked out `Rangitane'. Mentions Japanese prisoners' camp in Featherston and riot at camp. Recalls first antibiotic `Oiven' at Wellington Hospital administered by Dr Joe Mercer, also recalls first sulphur drug given - M and B 693l. Talks about Plunket training in 1949 - spent four months at Dunedin. Refers to Matron, Miss Batt and Mary Bayne. Describes public health nursing at Timaru. Talks about work in India. Describes trip, briefing in New Delhi, going to Calcutta. Mentions Lakshmi Devi (later editor of Kai Taiki New Zealand Nursing Journal). Recalls social event for Edmund Hillary. Describes setting up nursing course at Calcutta at All India Institute for training post graduate medical personnel. Describes living in Calcutta and social life. Recalls attending funeral of Mary Lambie in Christchurch Cathedral in 1971. Discusses involvement in NZ Nurses Association. Recalls experiences in USA while on WHO Scholarship. Gives further descriptions of India including Mysore and visit to Nepal. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Marie Burgess Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006229, 006230-006231 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1421.

Date: 24 Nov 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Pierson, Ruby Ellen, 1916-2006

Reference: OHInt-0314/18

Description: Talks about her family life in Nelson including childhood games, her strict father, her mother's housework and activities and activities at the Methodist Church. Describes secondary schooling at Nelson Polytechnic and segregation of boys and girls though the school was co-educational. Recalls the effects in Nelson of the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Talks about shifting from the Methodist Church to the Church of Christ, leaving school and trying to find work during the Depression, social life in Nelson, doing nursing training in Wellington and nursing at Ashburton and Otaki. Recalls the impact of the American forces there during World War II. Describes doing midwifery training at St. Helen's Hospital in Christchurch and Plunket training at Karitane. Comments on challenging aspects of Plunket home visits and lack of training in finance and mothercraft. Describes returning to Nelson, her relationship with the local Plunket branch, and Plunket work in country areas such as Murchison. Talks about the demand for birth control information, the role of fathers in bringing up children, her establishment of Fathercraft classes, the role of Plunket nurses in education and cot deaths. Venue - Nelson : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Nelson Quantity: 3 DAT tape(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 874.

Date: 25 May 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Bayne, Mary Ann Ellen, 1912-1993

Reference: OHInt-0314/08

Description: Recalls her childhood and upbringing on the family farm at Bells Junction. Refers to her father's accidental death and how the family coped with the farm. Talks about childhood games , local families, the Bells Junction school, mail and grocery deliveries and dances. Recalls annual visits to Taupo. Talks about uncle Kerry Bayne who died in World War I and the Depression. Describes working for the Burrell family and Mrs Emerson before going to Wellington to train as a nurse. Talks about the nurses' home, student nurses and working relationships. Describes her enjoyment of maternity nursing, Plunket training at the Karitane hospital in Dunedin, midwifery training at St. Helen's Hospital in Auckland, her Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Health and being a tutor at Karitane Hospital in Dunedin. Recalls her study trip to England before World War II and the resulting survey on breast feeding at Queen Mary Maternity Hospital in Dunedin. Talks about working at Karitane Hospital at Melrose and the shift of this hospital to Featherston during World War II. Talks about the difference between Karitane and Plunket nurses. Reflects on the changes in care of babies during her career. Gives her views on working mothers, unmarried mothers, contraception, abortion, discipline and home births. Comments on the closure of St. Helen's Hospital in Wellington and the Melrose Karitane Hospital. Venue - Wellington : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Sarah Dalton Venue - Mount Victoria, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004800;OHC-004801;OHC-004802;OHC-004803 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Ab 862. Photocopy of photograph of graduation of nurses at Wellington Hospital in 1938 ; portrait photographs of the Queen Mother and Mary Bayne in 1966 and a portrait photograph of Mary Bayne in 1987

Date: 10 Sep 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Cornwell, Irene Eva, 1924-2007

Reference: OHInt-0314/07

Description: Gives her family background, details about her education and the family's life which revolved round the Methodist Church. Notes that her father owned the drapery shop in Masterton. Talks about the family's social life, church and Bible Class, attitudes to drinking, dancing and World War II. Describes herself as a Wairarapa basketball representative who also did lifesaving. Talks about her desire to work with Maori and learning the language. Describes nursing training at Masterton, nursing the Japanese prisoners of war after the riot at the Featherston camp, tuberculosis nursing and maternity nursing. Describes Plunket training in 1947, marriage in 1948 and being a Plunket nurse in Auckland. Comments on the Plunket nurse community and general practitioners. Talks about her wedding, her husband going to Theological College and a brief period in Masterton before her husband's appointment to the Methodist Mission in New Guinea. Notes that they lived on the island of Buka in Northern Bougainville and stayed in New Guinea from 1949-1963. Describes a high infant mortality and the prevalence of disease. Talks about unpaid work at the hospital. Gives details of local birth habits, infanticide, sexual diseases and sexuality. Describes the birth of her children in New Guinea, her knowledge of four local languages and translation of the New Testament. Talks about returning to New Zealand, settling in Taranaki and the difficulties of readjusting. Notes that she still finds NZ ways difficult. Describes her move to Kaikohe, obstetric nursing and a move to Auckland. Talks about various Plunket jobs in Auckland including Principal Plunket nurse on the North Shore and Plunket tutor at Otahuhu. Comments on solo mothers, incest, adoption, child abuse, the need for parenting skills, the importance of the Plunket family units and the need for the Plunket nurse to be trained as a counsellor and social worker. Describes work in her retirement with the Church and as a Lifeline counsellor. Venue - Auckland : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Sarah Dalton Venue - Mt Albert, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004808; OHC-004809; OHC-004810 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 864. Search dates: 1992

Date: 10 July 1993 - 10 Jul 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Stubbs, Beverley Joy, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0067/058

Description: Beverley Stubbs born Thames. Recalls memories of school during war years and air-raid practices. Father a plumber, moved back to Waihi where grandfather was once a mine manager. Reference to grandfather's accident. Describes Ardmore Teachers' Training College where she trained as teacher and compares teacher training in that era to to-days training. Feels teacher and nurses training have become too academic. Talks about teaching experience at Orini and Te Hoe. Explains that while she enjoyed teaching she beame active partner in farm with husband. Talks in-depth about Waikino and how it has changed. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005861A Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1268.

Date: 20 October 1988

From: Psychiatric Nurses Oral History Project

By: Richardson, Kathleen Vera Grace, 1913-2003

Reference: OHInt-0139/6

Description: Kathleen Richardson discusses early life at Waitaki, aiding at Clyde Hospital, general training at Wanganui Hospital, work at Lewisham (now Welcare) and marriage to a psychiatric nurse in 1939. Also talks about psychiatric nursing at Porirua Hospital (1949); psychiatric training; attitudes; uniform; exams; treatment of patients; lectures; further ward experiences; introduction of Largactil; occupational therapists; Dutch immigrants; ECT Department. Discusses move to Hospital Board from Health Department control in 1972; changes to Porirua Hospital over the years; rebuilding of villas; recreational hall; integration; tutoring experience (1952); changes in nursing education; tutor blocks; `Vailima'; evaluation of psychiatric nursing; 1988 conference and future of integrated practice. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jill Maxwell Venue - 5 Coromadel Street, Newtown, Wellington Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1997. Search dates: 1988

Date: 22 November 1988 - 28 Nov 1988

From: Psychiatric Nurses Oral History Project

By: Griffin, Neville, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0139/3

Description: Neville Griffin talks about his nursing career, beginning at Seacliff Hospital in 1956, nursing duties, hospital organization, accommodation, conditions, treatment of patients, patient labour, fire drills, training duties, overtime and patient entertainment. Discusses nurses' training; psychiatrists; funding; influence of religious beliefs among nursing hierarchy; PSA involvement; effects of time and money and future of psychiatric nursing. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Kaye Carncross Venue - Porirua Hospital Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004863 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2001.

Date: 18 February 1993 - 18 Feb 1993

From: Nurses and Midwives Oral History Project

By: Fieldhouse, Alice Marjorie, 1912-2009

Reference: OHInt-0138/6

Description: Alice Marjorie Fieldhouse born Auckland. Talks about her training as nurse at Auckland Hospital; maternity training at Whangarei Hospital; post graduate course, Wellington (1941); Plunket training; BA degree Wellington (1950); and MA Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (1951-1952). Describes becoming involved with UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). Recalls trip to Germany - flying boat from Mechanics Bay, Auckland. Describes Displaced persons camp in former Luftwaffe Barracks and duties undertaken; big vaccination programme - Smallpox and Diphtheria. Discusses move to a British Red Cross hospital at Gerleve (Benedictine Monastery) which she describes. Describes US study experience. Talks about Commonwealth Fund Fellowship and position with WHO in Western Pacific. Alice has also been interviewed as part of NERF oral history project. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Marie Burgess Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006243-006245 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1425.