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Eileen Mary Neenan
No full textEileen was the eldest of five children born to parents Hilda Mary nee Hodgetts and Timothy Patrick Neenan (aka Tom) in 1904 in Williamstown, Victoria, where her father worked for Victoria Railways. Eileen's mother died in 1918 from complications of an appendectomy and her youngest brother died later in the same year. The remaining four children were cared for by Eileen's fathers' close knit family as he never remarried. The children attended St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception parish school.
Eileen never attended secondary school but both she and her sister Hilda went on to be trained as nurses. Eileen started her training at the Austin Hospital. She was then assigned to various other hospitals over the next four and half years as she progressed through her training. On the completion of her training at the Austin Hospital, Eileen then joined the staff at the Women's Hospital in Melbourne. In early 1940 Eileen accepted a position with the Commonwealth Government Department of Health to superintend on the bush nursing circuit in the Northern Territory. The position was based in Alice Springs but Eileen also worked in the Tennant Creek and Darwin Hospitals.
Eileen was working at the new Darwin Hospital in Lambell Terrace which had opened on 2 February 1942 when it was bombed just 17 days after opening. It came under Army control in March 1942 and remained so until June 1946 when civilian administration was resumed. The hospital itself was bombed despite a large red cross painted on the roof and became one of the receiving points for the many injuries as a result of the raids.
Eileen met Harold Victor Elcock at some point during her time in Darwin. Eileen was eventually evacuated back to Melbourne in 1943 but as she had agreed to marry Harold, she managed to get a flight to Alice Springs where Harold was based and was married on the evening of 14 April 1943.
Eileen was nominated for an M.B.E. (Civil Division) for her 'Brave conduct in face of extreme danger from enemy bombing' in March 1943. Eileen heard the announcement on the radio in her home in Alice Springs before she received the official telegram later in the day on 31 July 1943. Eileen was presented with her award after the war by His Honour, the Administrator of the Northern Territory, Mr. A. R. Driver at a reception for the Chief of Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery at the Darwin Oval on 30 June 1947 in front of a large crowd of over 300 people. Lord Montgomery, who was the first to congratulate Eileen on her award, had just flown in from Singapore.
In 1946 Eileen opened the 'Kay Garland' cosmetic shop in Mitchell Street opposite the Hotel Darwin bar. She later branched out into women's fashions including corsetry and travelled interstate sourcing products suitable for sale in her refurbished shop. Eileen was very active in the local community. She adjudicated in Dancing Championships, was often ?Matron of Honour' at Debutant Balls held at the Catholic Palais, and would act as compere at Mannequin Parades held by the CWA. She was, at various times, president of the Darwin branches of the Australian Red Cross, the Country Women's Association and the Ladies' Golf Club and was involved in establishing an ex-nurses association in Darwin. Eileen also participated in the activities of the CWA while living in Alice Springs. Eileen relinquished ownership of her ?Kay Garland' shop by holding a farewell party on 19 October 1951. By this time her husband, Harold Elcock had established his company Elcock Constructions in Alice Springs but due to a lack of work in the Territory, successfully tendered for construction work in Millicent, South Australia where he eventually moved his company. In 1955 Harold and Eileen bought 1750 acres at Robe, which they named Goodearth. Harold developed the property using his earthmoving equipment and eventually established commercial herds of cattle and sheep on the property. Eileen continued her association with both the CWA and the Red Cross in Robe.
Eileen and Harold never had any children. Eileen died 1 April, 1989 in Melbourne, Victoria.NurseBusiness WomanIris
Eileen Cossons
No full textEileen was born into a buffalo hunting family and her childhood years were spent in close friendship with Aborigines who moved with the family from one bush camp to another. She married Leonard Ray Cossons a bush policeman in 1952 and she became a true woman of the outback. She raised two children, provided constant support to her husband as a helping hand and health care in various outlying communities where they were stationed. Eileen treated snake bite, fed prisoners and travellers, delivered infants and stitched cuts using basic equipment. After Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin in 1974, Eileen's experience of working in isolated communities proved invaluable, she was responsible for setting up a kitchen cum mess hall in the ground floor of the old police headquarters at the corner of Mitchell and Bennett Streets which provided meals for up to 200 post-cyclone personnel: police officers, southern VIP's, relief workers and members of the media and others. After retiring from the Department of Mines and Energy, she is still involved with church activities, patchwork and quilt making.Community Servic
The role of part structure in the perceptual localization of a shape
No full textThe process of object localization may be accomplished with respect to a particularreference location, such as the center of gravity, COG (eg Vishwanath and Kowler, 2003 VisionResearch 43 1637-1653). Here, we investigated how part structure affects an object's referencelocation. The reference location was evaluated with a measure of the illusory displacement of an internal target element embedded within a larger object (Morgan et al, 1990 Vision Research 30 1793-1810). To examine whether the reference location is different for shapes with part structure, two shapes were tested: circle (small and large; no part structure) and bell (shape with two parts, one larger than the other). Results were examined with respect to two predictions: either the location of an object is based on its shape as a whole, disregarding part structure (ie a single, overall COG), or the parts are processed separately (different COGs).With the circles, the results showed a systematic illusory displacement of the internal target toward the COG. With the bell, the illusion was significantly weaker than with both circles--even though the main part of the bell had the same size as the small circle, and its horizontal axis had the same extent as the large circle. Moreover, the distance judgments for the bell were consistent with a (weaker) reference point being located at the COG of the larger part, rather than at the COG of the entire bell. These results show that the part structure of a shape plays a role in the representation of its location, and that for complex shapes the perceived location of an embedded element depends more on the parts within which it is embedded, rather than on the whole shape.Supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Grant AF 49620- 02-1-0112, Life Sciences Directorate to Eileen Kowler, and by NSF, Grant BCS-0216944 to Manish Singh.AF 29620-02-1-0112; to Eileen KowlerNSF BCS-0216944; to Manish SinghDenisova, Kristina, Manish Singh, Eileen Kowler, 2006. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Perception, 35, 1073-1087, DOI:10.1068/p5518
Maintaining Nursing Knowledge Using Bibliographic Management Software
No full textKEY POINTS• To engage in evidence-based practice, perioperative nurses should be regularlyaccessing literature on pertinent practice subjects.• Use of bibliographic management software can help nurses sift through databases tofind literature content that meets their needs.NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Perioperative Nursing Clinics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Perioperative Nursing Clinics vol. 7, no. 2 (June 2012), doi:10.1016/j.cpen.2012.02.004.Peer reviewe
The Opinion – Volume 24, No. 4, May 1982
No full textSelected Table of Contents Clinics: Hands on legal training / Katy Perry Mitchell trial team wins second in nation Crime rise prompts increased security / Jeanne Anderson Librarian resigns amidst problems / Jeanne Anderson Decision clarifies \u27aiding, abetting\u27 law / David Warg
Editorial Board
Chuck Friedman; George McCormick; Jeanne Anderson; Katy Perry; Deborah Ellis; Eileen Casalhttps://open.mitchellhamline.edu/the-opinion/1081/thumbnail.jp
The Opinion – Volume 24, No. 1, October 1981
No full textSelected Table of Contents Child Care: A Celebration / Katy Perry Three absences will be grounds for suspension / Chuck Friedman Flexibility goal as day program expands / Chuck Friedman Women faculty gain ground at Mitchell / Jeanne Anderson Changes spur interest in student loans / Michele DiEuliis
Editorial Board
Chuck Friedman; George McCormick; Jeanne Anderson; Katy Perry; Deborah Ellis; Eileen Casalhttps://open.mitchellhamline.edu/the-opinion/1077/thumbnail.jp
Managing carer stress: an evaluation of a stress management programme for carers of people with Dementia
No full textThis article examines the effect of carer stress management using the Carers' Checklist (Hodgson et al 1998) as a measure of outcome. Pre-course and post-course questionnaires were used with carers, identified by health and social services professionals, who agreed to attend a structured stress management course. Seven out of the 10 identified carers, who resided in the West Dorset area, participated. Only one carer's wife was a resident in a nursing home; the others were caring actively at home.The main measures of outcome were the burden of care, including social, financial and physical demands in terms of the carers' own experience, and their level of understanding of stress management techniques.The carers who attended demonstrated a better awareness and understanding of stress and its management following the course. Positive measures of outcome were also determined by a decrease in the carers' rating in frequency of dementia-related problems, carer burden of dementia-related problems and overall carer burden.The findings confirm that structured stress management can reduce carer burden and offer better coping strategies through raising carers' awareness and understanding
Evaluation of an integrated falls education group programme
No full textThis article describes how a working group helped develop an education
programme for older patients using local hospital and community services and
explains how the programme was evaluated
Preventing falls in older people: charting practice change by audit
No full textBefore an audit project in one trust there was no formal means of assessing the risk of falling among older patients. By raising staff awareness and consulting on the best evidence available, a specific falls-risk assessment has been developed and is now widely used. Follow-up audits have demonstrated a change in practice which it is hoped will bring about a reduction in falls
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