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Published on: 12-24-2020
Olive May Fisher was distinguished for her services as a nurse and nurse educator in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG)
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Early Life and Training
Olive Fisher was born on a dairy farm at Mona Bush, nine miles out of Invercargill, New Zealand on January 19, 1914, the second child of William Earnest and May Elizabeth Fisher. There were to be six children in the family. Life was not easy on the farm and all the children learned to work hard, an attribute that stayed with Olive throughout her ninety-four years.
While in her early twenties, she trained as a nurse at the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital, and graduated in December 1940. She subsequently trained in midwifery at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, and nursing in this field became her passion. Olive was employed at the Warburton Sanitarium before returning to her alma mater to work in the obstetrics ward for four years. ....

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