Deborah Jowitt


Genre:

    Skills:

    • Adult Non-Fiction
    • Flash Fiction
    • Short Stories

    Branch:

    Northland

    Location:

    Whangarei Heads

    Publications:


    These Hills Are Tapu

    Shoal Bay Press, 1991.

    Environmental history of the Tapu Valley, Thames Coast. 52 pages.

    Pav Deconstructed: Pavlova through the eyes of everyday Kiwis

    Pavlova Press, 2023. 

    'Pot-luck Pavlovas'.  

     

    Flash Frontier

    Chicken Lickin'

    December 2019: HUMOUR. 

    Flash fiction, 250 words.

    Flash Frontier

    Swimming Lessons from a Whale-man.

    December 20210: MICRO.

    Flash Frontier

    The sea has lost its memory.

    October 2022: INSECTS

    Flash Frontier

    The one that got away.

    July 2023: MOANA_OCEAN

    Flash Frontier

    Flux.

    July 2022: AWA.

    Flash Frontier

    The photograph.

    March 2024: MARIRE / QUIET.

    Flash Frontier

    Burr.

    October 2023: RAKAU/WOOD.

    Te Kohu, Poems

    fictionland, Kohukohu, 2023.

    Edited by Ann-Marie Houng-Lee.

    'Bright bodies'. 

    Changing Landscapes, Flash and micro fiction from Northland

    JOP, 2023.

    The sea has lost its memory.

    Regenesis.

    Taken.

    Flash Frontier

    October, 2023: MARA/GARDEN

    'Regenesis'.

    You Might Want to Read This

    JOP, 2021. 

    Chicken Lickin'.

    The Facts of Life.

    From the Island.

    Fast Fibres Poetry 10

    JOP (Jeff Oliver Print) Ltd. 2023.

    'Taemaro Bay'.

    Journal of Hospital Infection

    Jowitt DM, Morris, AJ. ‘The questionable value of microbiological sampling when commissioning new operating theatres’, Journal of Hospital Infection, 59, 3, March 2005, p.267, (Letter).

    Journal of Hospital Infection

    Roberts SA, McGuiness CA, Birse L, Jowitt DM, Morris AJ. Reducing the time interval for screening for methicillin-resistant  Staphylococcus aureus’. Journal of Hospital Infection, 60, 1, May 2005, p.86, (Letter).

    New Zealand Medical Journal

    Ritchie S, Jowitt DM, Roberts SA. The Auckland City Hospital Device Point Prevalence Survey 2005: utilisation and infectious complications of intravascular and urinary devices. New Zealand Medical Journal, 2007 Aug 24;120(1260):U2683.

    Antimicrobial Resistance Infection Control

    Roberts SA, Jowitt DM. New Zealand Health Quality & Safety Commission infection prevention and control programmes: evidence for sustained improvement in infection prevention interventions. Antimicrobial Resistance Infection Control (2015) 4(Suppl 1): P58. https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-4-S1-P58.

    New Zealand Medical Journal

     Freeman JT, Dawson L, Jowitt DM, White M, Callard H, Sieczkowski C, Kuriyan R, Roberts SA. The impact of the Hand Hygiene New Zealand programme on hand hygiene practices in New Zealand’s public hospitals. NZ Med J, 14th October 2016, Vol 129 No 1443.

    New Zealand Medical Journal

    Morris AJ, Roberts SA, Grae N, Jowitt DM. Getting surgical antibiotic prophylaxis right, lessons from the National Orthopaedic Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme: a call for action! New Zealand Medical Journal, 2019 Feb 22;132(1490):55-58.

    New Zealand Medical Journal

    Jowitt DM. The 'H-Bug' epidemic: lessons from antibiotic-resistant staphylococcal outbreaks in New Zealand hospitals from 1955-1963. New Zealand Medical Journal, 2019 Sep 20;132(1502):84-95.

    Australian Natural History

    Jarvis DM (text),  Startin S (photographs). Weaving with Nature, Australian Natural History, Vol 19, No 5, January-March 1978, pp.174-7.

    New Zealand Gardener

    Jowitt DM (story), Gill Hanley (photographs) . Rapaura - watergarden supreme. New Zealand Gardener, March 1992, pp.56-58. 

    Next

    Jowitt DM (story), Jenny Scown (photographs). Babes in the Wood, Next, 1992, p.42-45.

    NZ Doctor

    Jowitt DM. Bad lifting technique wrecks nurses' backs. NZ Doctor, 4 February 1993, p.21.

    Next

    Jowitt DM. History in the making. Next, December 1993, p.96-9.

    The H-Bug Epidemic: The Impact of Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococci on New Zealand Society and Health 1955-1963

    MSc Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004.  

    Government Policy Relating to Hepatitis B in New Zealand’

    PhD thesis, University of Auckland, 2010.