Jump to content

Lisbeth Hockey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lisbeth Hockey
OBE FRCN
Born1918
Died2004
Occupationnurse educator
EmployerUniversity of Edinburgh

Lisbeth Hockey OBE FRCN (17 October 1918 – 16 June 2004) was an Austrian-born British nurse and researcher. She was the first director of the Nursing Research Unit in Edinburgh. She was awarded a PhD for research in nursing, one of the first people to do so.

Early life

[edit]

Lisbeth Hochsinger was born on 17 October 1918 in Graz, Austria.[1] In 1936 she began studying medicine at the University of Graz where she completed three years of the course before being sent away from the threatening political situation in Hitler's Germany.[2][3] She was unaware that her family had some Jewish ancestry, but later both her parents were taken to concentration camps where they died.[4][5] With assistance from the Society of Friends, Hochsinger arrived in England in 1938 and went to Devon to stay with a brigadier and his wife.[1][4] She first worked as a governess for their children and learned sufficient English to start nursing training in London.[5]

Nursing career

[edit]

In 1939 she was accepted to do her general nurse training at The London Hospital.[6] She left the London Hospital on account of a new rule that stopped non-British subjects from nursing people who could be prisoners of war.[4] She was allowed to train at Coppetts Wood Hospital in Muswell Hill and she qualified as a fever nurse in 1943.[4][7] She then went to the Peace Memorial Hospital in Watford, completing her general nursing training in 1945.[6] She changed her name to Hockey in 1949.[8] She went to the North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton and studied for her Midwifery Part 1.[9] For the second part of her midwifery training she chose to go to Essex where she would spend time in the district.[4] In 1950 she gained a health visitor qualification from Battersea Polytechnic.[10]

In 1965, she began working at the Queen's Institute of District Nursing in London, first as a tutor and then as a research officer.[3] In 1970 she gained a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of London.[11]

In October 1971, Hockey was appointed the first director of the Nursing Research Unit in Edinburgh.[12] It was the first nursing research unit at a British University.[5] She completed a PhD in 1979, an uncommon achievement.[13] Her PhD was awarded by City University, London and although her thesis was not published, A Study of District Nursing: the development and progression of a long term research programme provided an early description of the responsibilities involved.[14]: 3 

Later life

[edit]

Although retired, she remained active in the nursing world.[13] The last year of her life was spent in a nursing home.[15] She died in Edinburgh on 16 June 2004.[1]

Awards and honours

[edit]

She was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1979 Birthday Honours.[16][17]

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) made her a fellow in 1980.[3] She was made an honorary fellow by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in 1982, the first nurse to be honoured this way.[18] It would be more than twenty years before another nurse was given this same honour.[19] She was proud of this honour, having always intended to care for the whole person.[3][4] In 1987 she was made an Honorary Member of the Austrian Nursing Association.[20]

In 2000 she received the Gold Medal of Honour from the Queen's Nursing Institute, only the fourth person to receive this honour.[21]

She was bestowed with honorary degrees from the University of Alberta in 1980,[22] University of Uppsala in 1985[23] and the Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh in 1995.[5]

Bibliography

[edit]
  • Feeling the Pulse (1966)[24]
  • Care in the Balance (1968)[25]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Obituaries. Lisbeth Hockey. Pioneer of nursing research". The Independent. 24 June 2004. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Lisbeth Hochsinger's University of Graz study book [inside front cover only]: Includes photograph of Lisbeth. 1936–1938. RCN Archives C/300/1/2/3". sites.nursing.manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d McIntosh, Jean (2004). "Obituary. Dr Lisbeth Hockey, OBE, FRCN 1918 2004. An Appreciation of her Contribution to the Nursing Profession". Primary Health Care Research and Development. 5: 367–368. doi:10.1191/1463423604pc226xx.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Royal College of Nursing archive: C/300/8/1. Lisbeth Hockey talking to Anne Marie Rafferty". Royal College of Nursing. 27 December 1987. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d "Lisbeth Hockey". The Scotsman. 25 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Royal College of Nursing archive: C/300 Lisbeth Hockey". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Lisbeth Hockey's Fever Nurse training certificate, 26th February 1943. RCN Archives C/300/1/4/2". sites.nursing.manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Royal College of Nursing Archives: C/300/9/2. 'Shrodells, Watford' badge". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  9. ^ "Royal College of Nursing archive: C/300/7/4. North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton: entrance". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  10. ^ "C/300/1/3/6. The Royal Sanitary Institute list of successful candidates Health Visitors' examination". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  11. ^ "C/300/1/3/12. University of London, Faculty of Economics, B.Sc, (Economics) Examination pass list". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Complexities of nursing today". The Glasgow Herald. 4 March 1972. p. 7. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  13. ^ a b Tschudin, Verena (March 2002). "Interview: Lisbeth Hockey". Nursing Ethics. 9 (2): 123–125. doi:10.1191/0969733002ne492xx. PMID 11944203. S2CID 220753109.
  14. ^ Pellett, Candice (2016). Discharge planning. Best practice in transitions of care (PDF) (Report). Queen's Nursing Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  15. ^ Goodman, Claire (27 September 2013). "Dr Lisbeth Hockey 1918–2004 'A pioneer of nursing research'". British Journal of Community Nursing. 9 (8): 331. doi:10.12968/bjcn.2004.9.8.15354. PMID 15365471.
  16. ^ "Supplement to The London Gazette of Monday, 25th June 1979". The Gazette. p. B54. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  17. ^ "News: Congratulations". Journal of Advanced Nursing. 4 (6): 673. November 1979. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1979.tb00900.x.
  18. ^ "New honour". The Glasgow Herald. 22 December 1982. p. 6. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  19. ^ "GPs honour nurse adviser". Nursing Standard. 19 (11): 5. 30 November 2004. doi:10.7748/ns.19.11.5.s7.
  20. ^ "C/300/6/10. Honorary Member of the Austrian Nursing Association". rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk. Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  21. ^ "Nursing's own gold medallist". Nursing Standard. 15 (10): 5. 22 November 2000. doi:10.7748/ns.15.10.5.s10.
  22. ^ "C/300/6/3 Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, University of Alberta". rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk. Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  23. ^ "Academic traditions > Prizes > Honorary doctorates". University of Uppsala. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  24. ^ Feeling the pulse: a survey of district nursing in six areas. WorldCat. OCLC 900647.
  25. ^ Care in the balance : a study of collaboration between hospital and community services. WorldCat. OCLC 31795.
[edit]
  • profile at the UK Centre for the History of Nursing
  • Lisbeth Hockey at the Royal College of Nursing archive
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lisbeth_Hockey&oldid=1164997580"