NURSES AND MIDWIVES

Evening Star, Issue 26096, 9 May 1947, Page 8

NURSES AND MIDWIVES

WIDE POWERS ACCORDED NEW BOARD (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 8. The Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer, announces the gazetting of the Nurses and Widwives Regulations in pursuance of the Nurses and. Midwives Act, 1945. With certain exceptions, the regulations consolidate the existing regulations; - The administration of the regulations is entrusted to the Nurses and Midwives’ Board, whose membership consists of the Director-General of Health (chairman), the Director-Gene-ral of Mental Hospitals, representatives of the Hospital Boards Association and of the medical profession, four nominees of the Registered Nurses’ Associaiotn. and the director of the Division of Nursing as:registrar. In addition to the registration of general nurses, midwives, maternity nurses, psychiatric nurses, male nurses, and nursing aids, the board is charged with the training of all nursing personnel, the recognition of hispitals and other institutions as training schools, the conduct of the State examinations. and with the disciplining, if necessary, of persons registered under the Act. The regulations provide appropriate machinery for approval hy the board of training schools for male nurses, and for their training. and examinationThe period of training and the standard of examination for male nurses is similar to that required of nursing aids. To qualify male nurse two years’ training • in an approved training school is necessarji'. .