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The Carpenter Report – written by director of the University of Toronto’s school of nursing Helen Carpenter for the New Zealand Government in 1971 – recommended nursing education move out of hospitals and into educational institutes. This went ahead over the next 18 years, and in 1989 the last hospital school of nursing – at Wellington Hospital — closed
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We should start our planning for a national and perhaps local events celebrating this milestone.
Chris Hattan, RN, FNZCMHN
1974 Christchurch intake