TRAINED NURSES

Evening Star, Issue 21640, 8 February 1934, Page 14

TRAINED NURSES

NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION’S CONFERENCE The annual conference of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association was- continued at the Medical School yesterday afternoon, the, dominion president (Miss E. J. -Young) presiding. .After correspondence had been dealt with questions discussed were the business of the use of the register, in connection with the selection of and appointment of nurses from the qualifications, appearing on the register. Miss Lambie, director of the division of nursing and registrar, who was present, explained' the action which the Registration Board was taking in this matter, and drew attention to the notices which had already appeared in the daily papers.. The legal aspect of the nurses’ . responsibility to patients and also the question of trained nurses being made responsible to act as dispensers in hospitals and having as their assistants nurses in training were two questions which were also fully considered. Sir Lindo Ferguson, dean of the Medical School, addressed the conference, and said how much pleasure it gave him to welcome the members. He felt that .Dunedin was the Mecca of medical and nursing students for New Zealand. Sir J.indo thanked the nurses for the support they had given to the nurses’ memorial fund, which at the present time was helping twenty-eight nurses.- 1 ■