Why we aren’t celebrating Florence’s birthday

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Why we aren’t celebrating Florence’s birthday

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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

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References

‘A Letter From Florence Nightingale’ Kai Tiaki 1 July 1924. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/KT19240701.2.35
Rodgers, J A. (1985). Nursing Education in New Zealand, 1883 to 1930: The Persistence of the Nightingale Ethos. MA thesis, Massey University, Palmerston North. https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/6274
McDonald, L. (Ed.). (2004).Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care – Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp 183-5.
Nightingale, F., & National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. (1865). Note on the aboriginal races of Australia: a paper read at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at York, September, 1864. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t07w6pn5d
Waitangi Tribunal. (2019). Hauora – Report on Stage One of the Health Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry. Lower Hutt: Legislation Direct. Retrieved from https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_152801817/Hauora%20W.pdf

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