Dame Judy Kilpatrick, DNZM, of Kumeu, for services to nursing education
Dame Judy Kilpatrick recently retired after 47 years of contributing to the development of nursing education and practice within New Zealand.
Dame Judy co-founded the University of Auckland School of Nursing in 1999 and was Head of School from 2002 to 2017, leading the department to be recognised as 32nd within the top 50 nursing schools globally in 2018.
The School became the largest provider of postgraduate nursing courses in New Zealand, provided the national programme for Māori nurses in disease state management, and led the national rural health postgraduate nursing programme.
She chaired the Nursing Council of New Zealand from 1996 to 2002. Under her leadership the Council began the development of the regulatory framework and negotiated the changes to legislation which enabled Nurse Practitioners to practise in New Zealand.
She was key to the development of the Nurse Practitioner Training Programme that was piloted at the University of Auckland and Massey University in 2016.
Recently she has led a delegation to Tonga to help develop a graduate education package to deliver training to nurses. She has been a Board member of the Cancer Society Auckland Division and the Rural Health Institute.
Internationally Dame Judy has held leadership roles with the Boards of Universitas 21, the Australasian Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery, and the International Association for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice.