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New Zealand's nursing profession has historically been plagued by brain drain, particularly to Australia. The larger population and higher salaries offered by the profession in Australia tempt many migrants, although nurses who remained in New Zealand caution their peers about a weaker social safety net and difficulty retaining personal and ...
1938 – The New Zealand Social Security Act of 1938 marks the introduction of a comprehensive health system that mandated the provision of free care for all. [3] 1939 – Registering of nursing aides commenced in New Zealand [43] 1939 – St Anne's Guild of Catholic Nurses formed. [44] 1939 – Elouera House nurses home opened in Wollongong.
1925 – New Zealand attempted to have a nursing programme available at the University of Otago. (Crisp, Taylor, Douglas & Rebeiro, 2013) 1926 – 20 July New Zealands's first sister was appointed by the board at Auckland hospital New Zealand. [58] 1929 – The Japanese Nursing Association is established. [26]
The New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS) formally came into being in early 1915, when the Army Council in London accepted an offer of nurses to help in the war effort during the First World War from the New Zealand Government. The heavy losses experienced in the Gallipoli campaign cemented the need for the service.
Establishment of district nursing service in Christchurch Sibylla Emily Maude OBE (11 August 1862 – 12 July 1935), known as Nurse Maude , was the founder of district nursing in New Zealand. She was loved for her selfless work for the poor, walking many miles each day in every kind of weather to treat those who could afford no medical help.
Elizabeth Grace Neill (née Campbell; 26 May 1846 – 18 August 1926) was a nurse from New Zealand who lobbied for passage of laws requiring training and national registration of nurses and midwives; in 1901, New Zealand was the first country in the world to introduce such laws. [1]
On 10 January 1902 Ellen Dougherty became the first registered nurse in New Zealand, and in the world. [ 2 ] Like other New Zealand acts requiring registration of professions there was a transition or grandfather clause allowing registration of nurses with at least four years experience even if they did not have the training specified for new ...
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...