Norma P. Chick is an Australian–New Zealand academic, and is an Emeritus Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at Massey University.
The following year she enrolled as an external student in philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and despite encouragement to continue that path, turned afterwards to studying psychology, completing an honours project in the area.
[1] Along with Nan Kinross, Chick introduced the first courses in nursing studies at Massey in Palmerston North in 1974.
[2] Chick completed a PhD titled Interpersonal needs, norms and performance in nursing at the psychology department at Australian National University in 1974.
"[5] While Chick was head of that same department in 1992, she published a history of the first twenty years of nursing studies at Massey.