Category Archives: nursing history

A proud past and fighting future: May Day 2013

Posted on May 6, 2013 by NU_admin

A Proud Past. A Fighting Future was the theme of yesterday’s May Day parade in Sydney and as the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association certainly has both a proud past and a fighting future (not to mention a current fight … Continue reading →

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CNE: Nurses must ‘stop eating their young’

Posted on April 22, 2013 by NU_admin

A concerned Clinical Nurse Educator writes: I have been a proud member of the nursing profession for more than twenty years. When I started, I was classed as “one of those new nurses who trained at uni and know nothing!” … Continue reading →

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INFOGRAPHIC: Fifteen people who had the biggest impact on nursing

Posted on April 5, 2013 by NU_admin

The clever folks over at Best RN to BSN.com have come up with a great infographic on the history of nursing. What do you think of their list of the fifteen people who have had the biggest impact on our profession? … Continue reading →

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A new mural for the nurses and midwives’ union

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NU_admin

Blue Mountains artist Birgitte Hansen has created a wonderful mural which shows the history of nurses and midwives in union activism in NSW. The patchwork artwork was recently hung on a wall of the Waterloo offices of the NSWNMA. Commissioned by the … Continue reading →

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Nursing has its moments!

Posted on November 30, 2012 by NU_admin

Guest post by Jan (nee Rayner) Mills, who writes about the many highlights of her nursing career, including nursing in Vietnam during the war.  After a rural childhood on the family farm ‘Cambridge Park’ on the NSW north coast, I … Continue reading →

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