Pamela Wood

Guest writer

Pamela Wood is a retired nurse academic with a PhD in history from Otago University. She is well known internationally for her research in nursing history and is currently writing a book on New Zealand nursing in the time of Empire.

A nurse takes a patient’s pulse in an influenza ward during the 1918 pandemic (Photo: Getty Images)

Overworked and overwhelmed: How NZ nurses coped with the 1918 pandemic

Nursing historian Pamela Wood looks at the near-impossible task facing nurses at the height of the Spanish flu pandemic.

By Pamela Wood | 6th May, 2020