International Council Of Nurses Meeting

Press, Volume C, Issue 29488, 14 April 1961, Page 15

International Council Of Nurses Meeting

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April 13. Improvements in nursing education and methods of overcoming the shortage of nurses in many parts of the world were among the subjects discussed during the three-day session of the board of directors of the International Council of Nurses, which ended in Wellington today. Thirty national nurses’ associations were represented at the conference, which considered some of the major items to come before the grand council of the I.C.N. in Melbourne next week. At the end of the directors’ meeting today, the president. Miss Agnes Ohlson (U.S.A.) expressed satisfaction at the unanimity of delegates in their desire to strengthen the

I.C.N.’s work programme and services to enable all nurses to contribute effectively to the improvement of health and nursing care in every country. The director of the I.C.N. Florence Nightingale education division. Miss Ellen Broe, presented a report which indicated the everwidening concern that nursing education should meet the demands for the best possible preparation for nurses to enable them to meet the present and future needs for nursing service. Nursing education entailed constant study and research, she said. International seminars were proving of great value, and I.C.N. headquarters were able to provide an advisory and consultative service, which was being more and more widely used. Nurses from six countries served on the I.C.N. education committee, she said, and, because they came from widely-separated areas of the world, each could make a valuable contribution in helping education projects adapted to the special needs of individual regions. Acceptance by the I.C.N. grand council of the membership applications of 13 national nurses’ associations was recommended by Miss Eli Magnussen (Denmark) with the 46 countries already represented in the organisations membership, the newcomers would help represent nurses around the world, she said. For the first time, applications for membership in the International Student Nurses’ Unit were received from three countries.