NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25179, 9 May 1947, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

REGISTRATION OF NURSES

NEW REGULATIONS , GAZETTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 8. The Minister of Health (Mr A. H. Nordmeyer) has announced the gazetting of the Nurses and Midwives Regu-' lations in pursuance of the Nurses and Midwives Act. 1945. With certain exceptions, the regulations consolidate the existing regulations. The administration of the regulations is entrusted to the Nurses and Midwives Board, whose membership consists of the Director-General of Health as chairman the Director-General of the Mental Hospitals, representatives of the Hospital Boards* Association and of the medical profession, four nominees of the Registered Nurses’ Association, and the director, division of nursing, as registrar. ’ In addition to 4 the registration of general nurses, midwives, maternity nurses, psychiatric nurses, male nurses and nursing aids, the board is charged with training all nursing personnel, the recognition of hospitals and other institutions as training schools, the conduct of State examinations, and with the disciplining, if necessary,, of persons registered under the act. The regulations provide appropriate machinery for approval by the board of training schools for male nurses and for their training and examination. The period of training and the standard of examination for male nurses is similar to that required of nursing aids. To qualify as a male nurse two years’ training in an approved training school is necessary.