• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0850

Cochrane, June

(1931 – )
  • Born 1931, Casterton Victoria Australia
  • Occupation Nurse, Nurse educator

Summary

June Cochrane began nursing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1950 and became a nurse after a chronic disability prevented her from continuing as a clinical nurse. For nineteen years she was the Principal Nurse Educator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide. She was an active member of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and council member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia, becoming its Executive Director in 1981.

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • Interview with June Cochrane [sound recording] Interviewer: Joan Durdin

Published resources