Introducing myself
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Topic: Introducing myself
Posted By: Anna W.
Subject: Introducing myself
Date Posted: 10 October 2011 at 12:17am
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Hi everybody,
My name is Anna Williams and I am a Karitane Nurse by profession living in Whangarei, Northland. I have recently gone out on my own to help new parents with their babies and thought this would be a great way to network and help out where I can. Looking forward to making some helpful contributions to the forums, and meeting you all. Thanks, Anna  ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
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Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 10 October 2011 at 7:09am
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Hi Anna, I am another ex karitane nurse and remember you from our last karitane reunion, what sort of things are you doing out on your own to help parents with their babies, would love to do this sort of thing where i live
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Posted By: Keolyn
Date Posted: 11 October 2011 at 4:55pm
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I was wondering, whats the difference between a Karitane nurse and a plunket nurse?
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Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 11 October 2011 at 6:33pm
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Karitane Nurses were trained at the Karitane Hospitals which were sadly closed in the 70's , Plunket nurses are registered nurses.
We as Karitane nurses used to go into peoples homes after we had finished our training and help Mums in the hospitals we had a prem ward, a mothercraft unit, a toddlers section for toddlers who needed to get into sleeping or good eating habbits and a general ward for babies who again had sleeping or feeding problems, these hospitals were closed to make way for the family units, but sadly some of these are now closing too. Maybe if we still had the hospitals less child abuse ------------- susie |
Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 14 October 2011 at 9:09pm
Hi Susie, I have just recently started offering intensive support to mums with new babies in the home. What are you doing at the moment? ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
susieq wrote:Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 14 October 2011 at 9:29pm
Hi Keolyn, I see Susie's already answered your question, so won't repeat it. Thanks for your query. ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 14 October 2011 at 9:51pm
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So are there no new Karitane nurses? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 14 October 2011 at 10:48pm
As far as I know, no more are being trained - certainly not up here in Northland anyway. ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 15 October 2011 at 8:29am
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Hi Anna,
I am nannying at the moment in St Heliers, and no there are no new Karitane nurses being trained at the moment, as I said its a shame they ever closed the Karitane hospitals, do you agree Anna, that they would probably be more useful now with problems of child abuse now, because then the Mums would get a break from babies who didnt feed, didnt sleep etc, although the Karitane Nurses and Nannies bureau in Auckland are trying to get a Karitane NZQA course started when it gets approved by NZQA board, there is of course nanny training but nothing beats the training we had in the hospitals ------------- susie |
Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 15 October 2011 at 8:31am
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hey Anna, my email address is suemcgehan@ihug.co.nz, could you email me and go into more detail of what you do, I would love to find out more about it, I remember meeting you at our last reunion, must organise another one next year. ------------- susie |
Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 15 October 2011 at 8:34pm
I agree - our training was very special. If a new training was available now, the basics would still be much the same but society has changed so much - our work would reflect that I think. Interesting about the NZQA course, I wasn't aware of that possibility. I've just recently put my name down on the Karitane Bureau's books too, just to add to the work I'm already doing. ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 15 October 2011 at 8:37pm
Sure - will email you soon with some details. ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 8:32pm
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I'm wondering if there's any Karitane Nurses living up here in Northland, who trained in the Auckland Karitane hospital 1972-1973? Would love to hear from any of you. ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 10 November 2011 at 9:01am
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I could look on my email list and book list of Karitanes from other reuninons Anna
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Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 10 November 2011 at 9:02am
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and we have a face book page for Karitanes
now ------------- susie |
Posted By: LG
Date Posted: 10 November 2011 at 3:53pm
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Anna, I saw you a lot with my eldest daughter Kaelin at the Family Centre in Whangarei. I would definately recommend you to any other Northland mums that might be reading this!
(I did phone the Family Centre to see if you were still there when my youngest was born but had been told you were out working privately now) -------------  Angel Baby Aug '12, Feb '13 |
Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 10 November 2011 at 5:22pm
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Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 10 November 2011 at 5:31pm
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Thanks so much for that! I remember the name "Kaelin" because it was quite unusual. I miss working at the Family Centre, but I needed to move on and find some new challenges. I speak at some coffee groups, to mums with young babies and give support in the home if there's difficulties with feeding and settling. It's great. ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |
Posted By: Anna W.
Date Posted: 10 November 2011 at 5:33pm
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Hi Susie,
That info would be good to have and I didn't know there was a Facebook page for K/N's. ------------- Tired parents? Unsettled young baby? Difficulties with feeding? http://blogaboutbaby.wordpress.com - Click here to get FREE tips and advice on my blog |