Nearly 50 years of comprehensive training

November 24, 2022

Just a heads up that 2023 will mark 50 years since New Zealand started comprehensive nursing training. In 1973, Christchurch and Wellington were the first two polytechnics to start this new method of nurse training, following the publication of the Carpenter report.

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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