£2000 Award To Nurse

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30745, 8 May 1965, Page 2

£2000 Award To Nurse

(N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON, May 7. A scholarship worth £2OOO —the first of its kind for a nurse in New Zealand—has been awarded to Miss Beatrice Salmon. Announcing the winner today, Mrs M. Pickard, the New Zealand Registered Association’s Dominion secretary, said Miss Salmon, who was one of a number of applicants, would study for a master of science (applied)

degree at McGill University, Montreal. For the last 18 months Miss Salmon, who trained as a nurse at New Plymouth Hospital, has been a staff member responsible for the public health programme at the School of Nursing University of Ghana, Accra. Before going to Ghana she was a nurse inspector of hospitals with the head office of the health department in Wellington.

Miss Salmon already holds a bachelor of nursing degree from McGill University obtained on a British Commonwealth Nurses’ Memorial Scholarship and a Rockfeller Foundation fellowship. Besides having had wide nursing experience in the New Plymouth Hospital as a sister and tutor sister, she worked as a public health nurse in city and rural areas and obtained a diploma in public health in New Zealand. She also trained as a Plunket nurse.

On completion of her degrees studies Miss Salmon intends returning to New Zealand. Mrs Pickard said the scholarship was being offered at five-yearly intervals.