Illustrated book with white cover, title and author's names printed in blue ink on the front cover along with a black and white photograph of a woman seated at a table (Mavis Braid [ca.2000] on the back cover is a quote 'Good, better, best, never let it rest until your good is better and your better best. non-fictionAutobiography of Mavis Baird (nee Gunn) including her memories of general nursing and midwifery training.mavis baird 1917-2006, autobiography, nursing-training, alfred hospital nurses

Illustrated booklet with brown, black and white cover, front cover has title, authors and series names, along with three historical photos, nurses standing under the verandah of a building, handwriting witl a metal nib pen, and a group of nurses wearing capes and veils. Back cover has a summary of the book along with a small black and white photograph of a nurses in uniform with long sleeves, apron and capnon-fiction"Nursing and midwifery have been the occupations of women for centuries and almost every one of us will find an ancestor who engaged in these traditional feminine pursuits. This book, written by experts in nursing history, women's history and family history, provides practical advice on how to research the lives of nurses and midwives, the hospitals they trained and worked in, and is a guide to the many public and private repositories where sources are found in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Nurses and midwives worked in hospitals, refuges, asylums, prisons, charitable institutions and were pioneers of bush nursing, established maternity hospitals and were often important health providers in small communities in past decades. The records of their lives are found in a wide range of places, and as well as online and digitised records, this book also points the researcher toward the myriad of documentary and private records which are useful for writing their lives"--back cover. nurses-australia-history, midwives-australia-history, obstetrics-australia-history, australia-genealogy-sources

Illustrated book. Title and authors name printed on front cover and spine (red ink on front and white ink on red background on spine) Background of front cover has three photographs: black and white photograph of a group of nurses (Malaya 1941 group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service nurses of the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station), colour photo of a nurse looking over her shoulder, and a coloured photo of an Indigenous nurse. The back cover has a summary of the book along with four coloured photographs: Portrait of a nun with constitution and quill (Sister Mary Augustine Aikenhead by Nicholas Joseph Cowley), A nurse in uniform with veil (Vivian Bull winkel 1941), an indigenous woman (Lois O'Donoghue) an enrolled nurse (Samuel Yenui)non-fictionFrom the First Nation caregivers who healed, birthed and nursed for millennia to the untrained and ill-equipped convict men and women who cared for the sick in the fledgling colony of New South Wales, nursing has been practised in Australia since the beginning. It would take the arrival of a group of dedicated Irish nuns, followed by Florence Nightingale-trained nurses - and decades of constant and continuing campaigning - to transform nursing into what it is today: the most trusted profession in Australia. Nurses will recognise their own lived experience in stories about training days, nurses' quarters, changing uniforms, changing roles, the arrival of male nurses and current pathways to nursing. Produced in collaboration with the Australian College of Nursing and the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives, with additional information provided by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, this is the story of nursing in Australia.nurses-australia-history, nursing-australia-history