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New Zealand nurse Rose Muir tried to modernise her profession while maintaining its traditional ‘true nursing spirit’.

New Zealand’s first Plunket nurse

Challis Hooper’s long years of working for greater equality for women in New Zealand were recognised when she was appointed an OBE in 1969.

New Zealand nurse, tutor, hospital matron, nursing administrator

New Zealand doctor

A few years before her retirement in her mid 90s, Florence Keller was acclaimed the oldest practising surgeon in the world.

New Zealand school dental supervisor, journal editor

She helped Plunket nursing become a significant institution in New Zealand society, particularly in Auckland.

Joan Donley was a midwife whose advocacy of home births and natural childbirth helped shape modern midwifery in New Zealand.

New Zealand nurse, hospital matron, tutor and nurses’ association leader