MALE NURSES
Training And Registration
. The law relating to the registration and training of nurses and midwives is consolidated by the Nurses and Midwives Bill introduced and read a first time in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Minister of Health, Mr. Nordmeyer, explained that the Bill also provided for the training and registration of male nurses. This was the main amendment to the existing law.
These clauses state that a register shall be kept of male nurses, and that the Nurses and Midwives Board may approve as a training school for male nurses any hospital or institution controlled by a State Department or by any hospital board or charitable institution. The. qualifications required for the registration of male nurses are set out in the Bill.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 258, 28 July 1945, Page 8
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