• Title
  Item 2: Merle Parkes interview by Virginia Macleod, 19 April 2021
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  19 April 2021
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9663810
• Physical Description
  2 audio file (2 hr. 6 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Merle Parkes talks about receiving the Rockefeller Scholarship in the USA. She discusses the impact her overseas studies and travel had on her, which influenced her to change the nursing teaching methods in Australia. Parkes talks about being the Principle of Nursing at Royal Perth Hospital and the ten years she spent advocating to move nursing from Ministry of Health to Ministry of Education and formalise the training as a tertiary degree. Parkes discusses being appointed the first Head of Undergraduate Nursing at Curtin University and designing the syllabus and running the department, then setting up the same system in Tasmania before retiring in 1993.
  
  Parkes discusses being introduced to The Women's Club in 1996, which she was a member for twenty years. She talks about starting a library at the club and being appointed the librarian. She describes the facilities, activities and the camaraderie she enjoyed as a member.
• 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--Study and teaching.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20253868

View Media Files

1.

2.

Show more