Louise Gladys Rummel is a New Zealand nurse and nursing educator. She has taught at

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for forty years. Rummel was made an honorary member of the

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in 2004. In 2024 she was appointed a Member of the

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for services to nursing education.

Academic career

Rummel trained as a nurse at Wellington Hospital, achieving registration in 1960. Rummel worked in a number of clinical areas, including occupational health, where she established the first occupational health clinic for New Zealand Railway workers, from 1962 to 1967. Rummel joined the School of Nursing at Manukau Institute of Technology in 1984, where she has been a clinical tutor at

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, the deputy head of the department, and principal lecturer over forty years. She also led the development of the nursing diploma programme into the Bachelor of Nursing degree. Rummel completed a master's degree on nursing student experiences pre-registration in 1993, and a

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titled ''Safeguarding the practices of nursing: the lived experience of being-as preceptor to undergraduate student nurses in acute care settings'' at

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in 2001. Rummel has worked in the field of nursing history, and led the writing of a history of the Department of Nursing and Health Studies, which was published in 2015. Rummel led the most recent section of the Nursing Oral History Project, which finished in 2023. She is on the review panel of the journal '' Kai Tiaki Nursing Research''.

Honours and awards

In 2004 Rummel was made an honorary member of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. In the

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Rummel was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to nursing education.

Selected works

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References

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A Teaching and Learning Design in Nursing Education Using Mobile AR Technology - to IEEE TALE 2022
', video about augmented reality in nursing education research by a team including Rummel {{DEFAULTSORT:Rummel, Louise New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics Nursing researchers Massey University alumni New Zealand nurses Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit Year of birth missing (living people) Living people