Comment was. made at the Epsom Infirmary recently that so many educated young wpnien were taking up nursing'at the homo. Miss Rudd,' who has been superintendent for nine years, has set a very high standard for the girls to attain to.. Until now, states an exchange, the nursing in the chronic wards, has been equal to the skilled nursing in .any. of the - important - base; hospitals in the Dominion. Some of the nurses have graduated and others have, passed their matriculation exaniiu* ation. It was explained to the memcommittee that girls would qualify in time for' som.eo'f.the important nursing posts, just as one" former nurse at theinfirni* ary was now a tutor sister, training probationer nurses*
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 12
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