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Tauranga nurse who worked during polio, TB honoured for International Year of Nurse
22 Dec, 2020 10:00 PM
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Being stuck on her back for six weeks with a broken pelvis was the best training Margaret Pringle could have to be a nurse. If people did your pressure care and didn t do it properly or they leave crumbs in your bed and you lie on your back and can t move, she said wincing her face. It taught me a lot about how to be a good nurse.
That was back in the late 1950s. Today the 85-year-old is humbled to be honoured by her aged-care provider Oceania Healthcare in celebration of International Year of the Nurse.