Nurse training
PA Wellington The New Zealand Nurses’ Association is pleased with an assurance from the Minister of Health (Mr Gill) that nursing programmes in technical institutes will continue indefinitely. His assurance applies to the four existing programmes in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, and Christchurch. However, in a letter to the association, Mr Gill added that lack of finance was preventing the establishment of programmes in Hamilton and Invercargill until 1978. He has called for a cost study of both projects, and the association has said it is prepared to help. The establishment of tech-nical-institute courses for nursing is part of a move to have nursing education removed from hospitals and into the general education stream. Explaining the reasons behind the move, the association’s executive director. Miss Shona Carey, said it was hoped that technicalinstitute training would give nurses a broader education.. In a traditional hospital training programme, the bias was towards the curative side. The technical-institute training was expected to provide nurses with the ability to work in a wider area.
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Press, 29 July 1976, Page 12
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