Nursing journal, Vol. 28 No. 2, 2023.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.11608/sgnj.28.2.3
Tatjana (Tanja) Valjo Žanić (Karlovac, June 27, 1934 – Karlovac, September 5, 2003)
Snježana Mirilović
orcid.org/0000-0002-4518-1162
; Opća bolnica Karlovac / Karlovac General Hospital, Andrije Štampara 3, Karlovac, Hrvatska / Croatia
Sažetak
Introduction: There is very little systematically collected and published data on the education and work of nurses in Karlovac. This small amount of data includes three published peer-reviewed papers that describe the history of nursing in Karlovac and contain integral parts of monographs of health institutions. In this paper, the life, education, and work of nurse Tatjana Valjo Žanić are reconstructed to provide an insight into educational opportunities and scope of practice of nurses in the fifties and sixties of the last century.
Methods: The foundation of this paper was based on documents stored in the archive of the Karlovac General Hospital, personal documents of Tatjana Valjo Žanić, oral testimonies of her son, former students of the Karlovac Medical School and associates.
Results: Tatjana Valjo Žanić completed four grades of public school and four grades of real high school in Karlovac. She graduated from the School of Nursing in Split. As a scholarship recipient of the Council for National Health and Social Policy of the People's Republic of Croatia, she attended a postgraduate course for the training of nurses at the School of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb. In addition, she obtained a scholarship for a one-year course in England. She otherwise spent her entire working life in Karlovac. She was on the position of head nurse of the Pediatric Department, the National Health Center, outpatient services and the Medical Center.
She worked as a teacher at the School of Nursing and was in the role of director of the School for Hygienists. Throughout her work, she attended several continuing education programs.
Conclusion: In the observed period, nurses were able to attend professional training in domestic and foreign health institutions. During the training, they were paid a salary. Public tenders with clearly defined conditions were announced for management positions. The work of the employees was systematically monitored and evaluated on an annual basis. Depending on the level of employee performance, a one-time monetary reward was approved by the institution. According to the nurses' statements, we can assume that at the end of the sixties, health institutions in Karlovac opened a small number of positions for nurses.
Ključne riječi
Tatjana Valjo Žanić; Karlovac; history of nursing; education of nurses; scholarships
Hrčak ID:
307241
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Datum izdavanja:
17.8.2023.
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