Historical information

The Northern District School of Nursing opened in 1950 to address the issues around nurse recruitment, training and education that had previously been hospital based. The residential school was to provide theoretical and in-house education and practical training over three years. The students would also receive practical hands-on training in the wards of associated hospitals. The Northern District School of Nursing operated from Lister House, Rowan Street, Bendigo. It was the first independent school of nursing in Victoria and continued until it closed in 1989.

Physical description

Five-page notes prepared by Isabel Gill from her notes and memory 1/2/1998 on a History of Nursing at the Bendigo Goldfields Hospital, also renamed The Bendigo and Northern District Base Hospital, and now the Bendigo Hospital of the Bendigo Health Care system.
education ceased at the Bendigo Base hospital and the School of Nursing in 1990.