Mother Aubert’s career in New Zealand spanned more than six decades. There was scarcely one of these decades in which she did not initiate a new venture or stamp her personality on some major project. Her lasting legacy to New Zealand was the religious order she founded.
New Zealand hotel-keeper, midwife, postmistress
New Zealand clerk, nurse, nursing administrator, hospital matron
Māori healer who came to prominence in 1905
Irish nursing pioneer
New Zealand medical doctor, medical superintendent, writer, publicist and health campaigner.
New Zealand nurse, prisoner of war
New Zealand civilian and army nurse, nursing administrator, hospital matron
New Zealand civilian and military nurse, army nursing administrator
Although the work for which she was more widely known was done during and after the First World War, McHugh had striven to enhance the health and welfare of women for nearly half a century.