• Title
  Item 1: Merle Parkes interview by Virginia Macleod, 8 April 2021
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  8 April 2021
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9663809
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (55 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Merle Parkes discusses her four-year nursing training at Ryde Hospital at 18 years of age, then further training in midwifery and Tresillian childcare and adoption practices. One of her nurse tutors inspired her to become a nurse educator. Parkes won a Florence Nightingale Scholarship to study at London University, College of Nursing 1956-8 and won the Rockefeller Scholarship in USA, 1959. She discusses the different methods of teaching nursing she learnt when she travelled throughout Scandinavia, Canada and USA, during her studies overseas.
• Language
  English
• Access Conditions
  Restricted
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Leura, New South Wales, on 8 April 2021
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Parkes, Merle E.
  
• Subject
  Parkes, Merle E.--Interviews.
  Nurses--New South Wales--Interviews.
  Nursing--Practice.
  Nursing--Study and teaching.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20253858

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