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Nurses standing for election to DHBS.


A number of nurses are standing for election to district health boards (DHBs) in next month's local body elections. They include Otaki nurse Anne Chapman Anne Chapman (born 1922) is a Franco-American ethnologist. She has studied the Mesoamerican civilizations and especially the Tolupan (Jicaque) people of Honduras. She has also visited Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego many times, since 1965, to study the Fuegian peoples in depth, , a member of MidCentral DHB DHB District Health Board (New Zealand)
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DHB Deutschen Hausfrauen-Bundes (Darmstadt)
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 since 2001; senior lecturer at Victoria University's Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery midwifery (mĭd`wī'fərē), art of assisting at childbirth. The term midwife for centuries referred to a woman who was an overseer during the process of delivery. In ancient Greece and Rome, these women had some formal training.  Rose McEldowney, who has been endorsed by NZNO's Wellington Regional Council as a Green Party candidate for election to Capital and Coast DHB; youth health nurse specialist Janine Vollebregt, who is standing for Wairarapa DHB; "Quit" coach with Whangarei Hospital's stop smoking programme Pauline Allan-Downs (an NZNO NZNO New Zealand Nurses Organisation  nominee), who is standing for Northland north·land also North·land  
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A region in the north of a country or an area.



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 DHB; college/section representative on NZNO's board of directors Marion Guy, standing for Bay of Plenty DHB; and Michelle Yates, who is offering her combined nursing and law skills to the Auckland DHB.

In the South Island, Christchurch Hospital emergency department nurse John Dean is standing for the first time, and former respiratory educator Alison Wilkie is restanding. Wilkie chaired the community and public health advisory committee on the previous board. Dunedin Hospital's Older Persons' Health service educator Barbara Earle is restanding for the Otago DHB, while nurse educator Lesley Dennison and midwife Mary Gamble are first-term nominees. Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland.  invites all successful nurse candidates to contact the co-editors after the October 9 election, in order that fuller profiles may be published.
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Title Annotation:News And Events
Publication:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
Article Type:Brief Article
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Date:Sep 1, 2004
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