• Title
  Jim McMurtry oral history interview by Greg de Moore
• Creator
  Gregory de Moore, 1958-
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  6 August 2012
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9589875
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr., 21 min.) - digital, WAV, 48 KHz, 24 bit
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Dr Greg de Moore is a consultant psychiatrist at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, and a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School.
  Jim McMurtry was born in Northern Ireland in 1930, arriving in Sydney in 1949. He worked as a psychiatric nurse in Sydney from 1955 to 1975.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  In this interview, Jim McMurtry discusses his career in mental health nursing, including his experiences working as a psychiatric nurse at Parramatta Mental Hospital (now Cumberland Hospital) from 1955 to 1975. He describes the changing methods used to control and restrain agitated patients and the use of medication and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Cumberland Hospital, Westmead, on 6 August 2012.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  McMurtry, Jim
  
• Name
  Parramatta Mental Hospital
  
• Subject
  Psychiatric nurses--New South Wales--Interviews.
  Psychiatric nursing--New South Wales.
  Psychiatric hospitals--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE11702241

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