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Nursing student, 2005

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Nursing student, 2005

Second-year student Cara Jones takes the blood pressure of a fellow student at the University of Auckland in 2005. Learning through practice remained an important part of nursing training in the 2000s.

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Allison Kirkman, Health practitioners – Nurses and midwives, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28331/nursing-student-2005 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.