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Why we aren’t celebrating Florence’s birthday
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Why we aren’t celebrating Florence’s birthday
Tuesday 12 May 2020, 11:57 AM

Florence Nightingale’s troubling role in colonisation makes her legacy a mixed one for the South Pacific argue NZNO leaders
Many nurses find Nightingale’s statements on colonisation and the fate of indigenous people a dangerous legacy, says the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. In April’s edition of Kai Tiaki magazine Grant Brookes and Kerri Nuku explained why NZNO’s board of directors decided to celebrate other nurses and models of health on International Nurses Day 2020
It’s surely testament to the huge significance of Florence Nightingale in the development of our profession that 200 years after her birth, she contin
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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