MATERNITY TRAINING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 6

MATERNITY TRAINING.

ESSENTIAL FOR ALL NURSES

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AUCKLAND, March 3

"No nurse's tntTEuig is complete without maternity training." This remark was made by the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board (Mr William Wallace) on the occasion of the laying of the foundation-stone of the new Nurses' Home on Saturday. He referred to the proposal that had been made that the Auckland Hospital Board should take over St. Helens Maternity Hospital, and manage it. The' Hospital Board, ho said, was ready and willing to take that institution over, otherwise it would certainly erect its own maternity ward, so that their nurses could have maternity training. "I have always considered that no nurse has completed her training unless she has learned something about the babies," said Sir Maui Pomarc, Minister of Health. It was during the period of their hospital training that they should have this instruction. No nurse could be considered fully equipped unless she had learned something about St. Helens work. It wa.s for that reason that he wanted the Hospital Board to take over St. Helens Hospital, and he wanted other Hospital Boards to do the' same, and make them part of their own scheme of operations. Then every nurse in New Zealand would be traineQ efficiently and in the best way.