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I am looking for an article on nursing in the 1980s. Can you help?
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Kidd, J. (2026). Young, white and female: An ideal nurse in the 1980s. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 1-6. which you can locate in Ara Library Search.
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Barton, P. (2025). Ara whakamua: The stasis of Māori nursing over 4-decades in Aotearoa: An indigenous case study. Auckland University of Technology. https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/ef07ac7a-0a3c-4a62-bb00-4f7106f9916f/content
In this thesis, Barton (2025) highlights the two significant shifts in nursing in the 1980s on page 109.
Try a Google Scholar search
Try a search in Google Scholar on 1980s nursing in New Zealand which finds
Kidd, J. (2026). Young, white and female: An ideal nurse in the 1980s. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 1-6. which you can locate in Library Search.