Lisbeth Hockey

Lisbeth Hochsinger was born on 17 October 1918 in Graz, Austria.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lisbeth-hockey-730639.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lisbeth-hockey-730639.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituaries. Lisbeth Hockey. Pioneer of nursing research |work=The Independent |date=24 June 2004 |accessdate=10 October 2016}} 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.{{cite news |url=http://sites.nursing.manchester.ac.uk/ukchnm/archives/nurseleaders/lisbethhockey/resources/tour/tour2 |title=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. |publisher=University of Manchester |website=sites.nursing.manchester.ac.uk |accessdate=9 October 2016}}{{cite journal |title=Obituary. Dr Lisbeth Hockey, OBE, FRCN 1918 2004. An Appreciation of her Contribution to the Nursing Profession |first=Jean |last=McIntosh |journal=Primary Health Care Research and Development |year=2004 |volume=5 |pages=367–368|doi=10.1191/1463423604pc226xx |doi-access=free }} She was unaware that her family had some Jewish ancestry, but later both her parents were taken to concentration camps where they died.{{cite web |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/8/1.html |title=Royal College of Nursing archive: C/300/8/1. Lisbeth Hockey talking to Anne Marie Rafferty |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |date=27 December 1987 |accessdate=16 October 2016}}{{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/lisbeth-hockey-1-536639 |title=Lisbeth Hockey |work=The Scotsman |date=25 June 2004 |accessdate=9 October 2016}} 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. She first worked as a governess for their children and learned sufficient English to start nursing training in London.

In 1939 she was accepted to do her general nurse training at The London Hospital.{{cite web |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/ |title=Royal College of Nursing archive: C/300 Lisbeth Hockey |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |accessdate=9 October 2016}} 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. She was allowed to train at Coppetts Wood Hospital in Muswell Hill and she qualified as a fever nurse in 1943.{{cite web |url=http://sites.nursing.manchester.ac.uk/ukchnm/archives/nurseleaders/lisbethhockey/resources/tour/tour4/ |title=Lisbeth Hockey's Fever Nurse training certificate, 26th February 1943. RCN Archives C/300/1/4/2 |publisher=University of Manchester |website=sites.nursing.manchester.ac.uk |accessdate=15 October 2016}} She then went to the Peace Memorial Hospital in Watford, completing her general nursing training in 1945. She changed her name to Hockey in 1949.{{cite web |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/9/2.html |title=Royal College of Nursing Archives: C/300/9/2. 'Shrodells, Watford' badge |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |accessdate=9 October 2016}} She went to the North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton and studied for her Midwifery Part 1.{{cite web |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/7/4.html |title=Royal College of Nursing archive: C/300/7/4. North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton: entrance |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |accessdate=9 October 2016}} For the second part of her midwifery training she chose to go to Essex where she would spend time in the district. In 1950 she gained a health visitor qualification from Battersea Polytechnic.{{cite web |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/1/3/6.html |title=C/300/1/3/6. The Royal Sanitary Institute list of successful candidates Health Visitors' examination |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |accessdate=17 October 2016}}

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. In 1970 she gained a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of London.{{cite news |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/1/3/12.html |title=C/300/1/3/12. University of London, Faculty of Economics, B.Sc, (Economics) Examination pass list |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |accessdate=17 October 2016}}

In October 1971, Hockey was appointed the first director of the Nursing Research Unit in Edinburgh.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PeU9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=d0gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6176%2C792398 |title=Complexities of nursing today |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=4 March 1972 |page=7 |accessdate=3 October 2016}} It was the first nursing research unit at a British University. She completed a PhD in 1979, an uncommon achievement.{{cite journal |title=Interview: Lisbeth Hockey |first=Verena |last=Tschudin |journal=Nursing Ethics |date=March 2002 |volume=9 |number=2 |pages=123–125 | doi=10.1191/0969733002ne492xx|pmid=11944203 |s2cid=220753109 }} 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.{{cite report |url=http://qni.org.uk/docs/Discharge%20Planning%20Report%202015.pdf |title=Discharge planning. Best practice in transitions of care |first=Candice |last=Pellett |publisher=Queen's Nursing Institute |date=2016 |accessdate=16 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211242/http://qni.org.uk/docs/Discharge%20Planning%20Report%202015.pdf |archivedate=18 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{rp|3}}

Although retired, she remained active in the nursing world. The last year of her life was spent in a nursing home.{{cite journal |title=Dr Lisbeth Hockey 1918–2004 'A pioneer of nursing research' |first=Claire |last=Goodman |journal=British Journal of Community Nursing |volume=9 |issue=8 |pages=331 |doi=10.12968/bjcn.2004.9.8.15354 |pmid = 15365471|date=27 September 2013}} She died in Edinburgh on 16 June 2004.

She was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1979 Birthday Honours.{{cite news |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/47888/supplement/1 |title=Supplement to The London Gazette of Monday, 25th June 1979 |work=The Gazette |page=B54 |accessdate=9 October 2016}}{{cite journal |title=News: Congratulations |journal=Journal of Advanced Nursing |date= November 1979 |volume=4 |issue = 6|page=673 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2648.1979.tb00900.x}}

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) made her a fellow in 1980. She was made an honorary fellow by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in 1982, the first nurse to be honoured this way.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D8NAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3919%2C3890415 |title=New honour |work=The Glasgow Herald |page=6 |date=22 December 1982 |accessdate=8 October 2016}} It would be more than twenty years before another nurse was given this same honour.{{cite journal |title=GPs honour nurse adviser |journal=Nursing Standard |volume=19 |issue=11 |pages=5 |date=30 November 2004 |doi=10.7748/ns.19.11.5.s7}} She was proud of this honour, having always intended to care for the whole person. In 1987 she was made an Honorary Member of the Austrian Nursing Association.{{cite web |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/6/10/ |title=C/300/6/10. Honorary Member of the Austrian Nursing Association |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |website=rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk |accessdate=16 October 2016}}

In 2000 she received the Gold Medal of Honour from the Queen's Nursing Institute, only the fourth person to receive this honour.{{cite journal |title=Nursing's own gold medallist |journal=Nursing Standard |volume=15 |issue=10 |pages=5 |doi=10.7748/ns.15.10.5.s10 |date=22 November 2000}}

She was bestowed with honorary degrees from the University of Alberta in 1980,{{cite web |url=http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/6/3/ |title=C/300/6/3 Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, University of Alberta |publisher=Royal College of Nursing |website=rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk |accessdate=15 October 2016}} University of Uppsala in 1985{{cite web |url=http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/ |title=Academic traditions > Prizes > Honorary doctorates |publisher=University of Uppsala |accessdate=15 October 2016}} and the Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh in 1995.

• Feeling the Pulse (1966){{cite book |title=Feeling the pulse: a survey of district nursing in six areas.|publisher=WorldCat |oclc = 900647}}
• Care in the Balance (1968){{cite book |title=Care in the balance : a study of collaboration between hospital and community services |publisher=WorldCat |oclc = 31795}}

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• [http://sites.nursing.manchester.ac.uk/ukchnm/archives/nurseleaders/lisbethhockey/biography/ profile] at the UK Centre for the History of Nursing
• [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/archive-browse/C/300/ Lisbeth Hockey] at the Royal College of Nursing archive

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