International Nurses Day 2010

Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Chronic Care

As we move towards celebrating International Nurses Day for 2010 we would like to take the opportunity to remind you of two events that Capital & Coast District Health Board will be hosting:

1. Friday 7th May 3pm to 5pm in the Wellington Hospital Atrium – Our Roots and Our Future.
   
   We are excited to welcome Joyce Hood, the 2010 recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, as guest speaker for this fundraising event. Joyce has served as a project manager for a medical training programme in An Najaf in South Western Iraq, where she ran courses for doctors and nurses to update their emergency care skills as well as giving bedside teaching. She has also received the New Zealand Operational Service Medal and the New Zealand General Service Medal for work in Afghanistan. This event will also provide the opportunity to showcase some of our nursing and midwifery memorabilia as well as the existing timeline which some of you may remember from the opening of the hospital last year. A feature of this event will be the opportunity to view the restored stained glass windows from the old nurse’s chapel. Many of you may have been part of the thinking as to how these windows were going to make the transition into our new place. C&C DHB is very proud of their new home.
   
   See the programme for this event [PDF] >
   
   
2. Wednesday 12th May 3.30pm to 6pm in the Nordmeyer Theatre, Otago School of Medicine, Wellington – International Nurses Day Celebrations on the day.
   
   As C&C DHB moves to an increasingly integrated organisation this event has, for the last few years, provided the opportunity for the Directors of Nursing to celebrate the contribution that nurses are making across the wider health care sector. This year we see the inaugural award for overall excellence in nursing with the introduction of the Ellen Dougherty Award. Many of you will be aware that Ellen Dougherty, having trained at Wellington Hospital, was the first state registered nurse in the world following the passing of legislation, the Nurses Registration Act here in NZ in 1901.
   
   See the programme for this event [PDF] >

The event on the 7th May is fund raising for a permanent display showing nursing and midwifery practice from the past to the present. We believe this important project will highlight the ongoing contribution that nurses and midwives make and raise awareness of this to the people we serve.

If you intend to attend either or both of these events, please RSVP as soon as possible to Herb.murphy@ccdhb.org.nz. We very much look forward to having you with us to help celebrate International Nurses Day 2010.