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New Zealand missionary and nurse

New Zealand missionary

New Zealand district nurse, community leader and nursing inspector

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

Known throughout New Zealand as Nurse Maude

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.