Retired Nurse, Child and Family Primary Health Care, New Zealand, Aotearoa

Diana entered nursing school in Auckland in 1956, aged eighteen. There were a lot of country girls in her cohort at Auckland Hospital because the private school city girls tended to go to Green Lane Hospital. During the preliminary training the girls were taught practical tasks like bed making and giving bed pans. Some of Diana’s early clinical experiences involved caring for children with tuberculosis and other diseases at Princess Mary Hospital. She enjoyed working with children, but some of the experiences of working with terminally ill children were upsetting, especially as a first year nurse 

Health care, child care