A NEW DIPLOMA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18195, 4 October 1924, Page 10

A NEW DIPLOMA.

UNIVERSITY COURSE FOB J NURSES. M irMSS ABST3CXATIOK TZL*OBllt.) $1 WELLINGTON, October sJI A. circular, letter, addressed by tMg Department of Health, states that Ww authorities of Otago University decided to institute a diploma of no|| sing and. a post gradu&to course fofe nurses at Otago University. Jj Miss Janet Moore, late, matilon ofi the Waikato ; Hospital, lias, been sent| bv the Government to train and graduate as a nurse administrator at Bedford College (Unhand) and return to take up the .position of mirse tutor atOta&o University. The Government ing a second nurse to Bodford UolieftSj nGxt yoar to graduate in. public nursing, also to return and tfiifco the position of tutor in Public Healtre nursing at the university. 1 . _ 'jj The course for the diploma in ing will occupy five years and will 111$ dude lectures and practical nursing. I The Department hopes that at thf beginning of the scheme Hospital Boardß will select members of tbeitf Btafe for university training at Dtmediin, such nurses being required to return to the Boards for a specified period to undertake the training M probationers. 11l While tie majority of hospitals awl too small to-, establish .preliminaj®! training schools, the Director-Gene™ of Health hopes that the Boards iaufl four centres will consider the p6pj| bility of combining for the establishing such institutions. He fHgi sure that the Boards will not lag mI hipd in any sound proposal further .raising the standard of . iM nurse tfaining system in the DominiMg