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Badge, qualification
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Badge, qualification |
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| Object type | Nursing/occupations; women in history; nursing/medical services/wars Classification: 76640 |
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| Description |
English: New Zealand Registered Nurse qualification badge presented to Nurse Vida M K MacLean, Wanganui Hospital, 1910 five-point star,enamelled brass, fixed loop suspension, suspension bar marked- N Z R N, brooch pin fastening verso badge inscribed verso- 845 - VIDA M. - K. MACLEAN - Wanganui Hospt. - 1910 markings- maker's name verso- H. JENKINS - and SONS LTD - BIRM |
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| Date | (1910); 17 Jul 2001; George V (1910 - 1936)-House of Windsor-English reign; 15 Aug 2001; 1910 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 44mm |
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2001.25.619 |
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| Place of creation | Birmingham; Wanganui : Whanganui | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Display: 7G 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2001.25.619 Brent Mackrell Collection |
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| Notes | NZ Registered Nurse badge presented to Nurse Vida M K MacLean, Wanganui, 1910 Lt. Col. Vida M.L. MacLean, NZANS Served- WW1- Samoa, Egypt, England. Post-War- Matron Plunket Society WW2- Indian Army Nursing Service, Burma Campaign 1942-46 Awards- RRC, ARRC, MID THE BADGE The designer of the Five Pointed Star was Mrs Grace Neill, who was appointed assistant inspector of hospitals in New Zealand in 1895. Mrs Neill was successful in having the State Registration for Nurses Act passed in 1901, and was a foundation member of the International Council of Nurses. The badge was first issued in 1901. The Five-Pointed Star badge of the New Zealand Registered Nurses was the recognised badge of those connected with Medicine and "originated with the Priests of the Temple of Isis - who had become a powerful body of healing - To secure admission of reliable and worthy men Oaths of Allegiance were sworn upon a representation of a five-point star - Each point of the star was of peculiar import representing volition, fidelity, or intellect and were explained to the candidate for admission as follows- 1. The Hand. That my hand shall be ever extended to help, comfort and relieve the sick and suffering. 2. The Foot. That my feet shall not falter, loiter or linger, when journeying to alleviate the suffering of the sick. 3. The Knee. That my knee shall bow in supplication to Almighty Ra, for aid in my endeavour to succour and relieve the sick and the suffering. 4. The Breast. That my breast shall be a safe and sacred repository for any secret entrusted to me or divulged during the sickness of delirium, or otherwise obtained. 5. The Head. That I will constantly pursue the study of the secret arts. That I will exercise my knowledge to the benefit of the suffering mental or bodily distress and that I will disseminate such knowledge among others that my preceptors may authorise and direct." From- The Origin of the Five Point Star- Kai Tiaki - the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume IX, Issue 1, January 1916, Page 42 VIDA MARY KATIE MACLEAN Vida Mary Katie MacLean left Wellington for Samoa on 15 August 1914 with five other nurses as members of the Expeditionary Force Advance Party. The NZANS had not been established at that time so the nurses were attached to the New Zealand Medical Corps (NZMC) as New Zealand Army Nursing Service Reserve (NZANSR) and were issued with service numbers which were later replaced with NZANS numbers. MacLean returned to New Zealand to join the first contingent of 50 nurses to leave for Europe, in April 1915 on board SS Rotorua. Initially posted to Egypt, MacLean took charge of the isolation block at the 300-bed New Zealand base hospital in Cairo. She was transferred to England in June 1916 where she became matron of the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital at Hornchurch in January 1917 and then of the No.1 New Zealand General Hospital at Brockenhurst in April. Both hospitals were huge. Hornchurch had over 1000 beds, while Brockenhurst held over 1500, and at peak use during 1918 cared for more than 1600 injured and sick New Zealand soldiers. During the war she was twice mentioned in despatches (MID). In 1925, MacLean became active in Plunket, taking the work to India in 1938 where she was to open a Mothercraft Clinic in Calcutta. WW2 intervened, during which she served with the Indian Military Nursing service. The clinic, the Truby King Mothercraft Centre, was opened in 1948 and MacLean became first matron. MacLean returned to NZ in 1955 aged 73.She died in Wanganui in April 1970. NB- From Te Ara and from While You're Away- New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948 by Anna Rogers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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