COURSE FOR NURSES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30085, 20 March 1963, Page 2

COURSE FOR NURSES

Professional Training (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 18. New Zealand should ultimately have a professional training course for nurses with university entrance as a standard of entry, said Miss J. M. Kirkness, the matron-in-chief of the Auckland Hospital Board. Miss Kirkness will retire next month. She said she would like to see a chair of nursing established in universities. Then nursing could be looked on as a profession. “We cannot expect every gir l who wants to be a nurse to have university entrance and because our main interest is the patient, we should have another course—a general one—which would have basic nursing as its beginning and would give qualification in specialised subjects.’* she said.

The general course would eventually give a girl satisfactory status as a ward or theatre sister or a sister in charge of a smaller hospital.

Red Cross Officers At Mount Somers The following officers were > cted at the annual meeting of the Mount Somers subcentre of the Red Cross Society: Patron, Mrs J. W. Cornyns; president, Mrs D. W Herron; vice-presidents, Mesdames G Wilson, R McCallum and L S. Morgan; secretary, Mrs L Wilson; treasurer, Mrs N B. Lochheed; committee, all financial members.