Intensive Care Unit
The North Canterbury Hospital Board has received Health Department approval for conversion of a ward at Princess Margaret Hospital to a four-bed room for use as an intensive care unit.
A number of patients in respirators required constant nursing, the medical superin-
tendent in chief, Dr L. M. Berry, said at yesterday’s meeting of the board. Three or four people and their machines could be supervised in one ward by one nurse, he said. This was being planned in the thoracic ward at Princess Margaret Hospital. Nursing Training Although he was not convinced of the need for university nursing training, there was a need for academic
training of tutors, said the chairman, Dr L. C. L. Averill. He would not like to see anything that would make nurses’ State registration a second-grade qualification. The board received a copy of a report on nursing education in New Zealand by Miss Alma Reid, in which reference was made to the need for university training for nurses. Visiting Hours To minimise difficulties in organising the medical and nursing work of Ward 9B at the Christchurch Hospital, the visiting hours for the ward will be altered to: Monday to Friday, 12.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.; week-ends, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31177, 29 September 1966, Page 11
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