[5] Gooder worked as a clerk for North Shore Transport before training in England as a nurse.
[5] Gooder became a pioneer of integrated nursing, the inclusion of psychiatric considerations in treating patients, and published articles promoting the approach.
[4] As a teenager Gooder had a boyfriend, who was killed in 1942 while serving overseas when his Wellington bomber crashed.
[4] Gooder was however a lesbian, and sought help for her attraction to women at the Queen Mary Hospital in Hanmer Springs.
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