NURSES AND MIDWIVES
CONTROL BOARD'S POWERS TRAINING AND EXAMS. ((P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 9. The Minister o£ Health, Mr A. H. Nordmeyer announces the gazetting of the nurses and midwives regulations in pursuance of the Nurses and Midwives Act, 1945. Administration of tne regulations is entrusted to the Nurses and Midwives Board whose membership consists of the Director-General of Health (chairman) Director-General of Mental Hospitals, representatives of the Hospital Boards’. Association and of the medical profession four nominees of the Registered Nurses’ Association and the director, division of nursing, as registrar. In addition to the registration of general nurses, midwives, and maternity nurses, psychiatric nurses, male nurses and nursing aids, the board is charged with training all nursing ’ personnel, the recognition of hospitals and othe institutions as training schools, the conduct of State examinations and ■with the disciplining, if necessary, of persons registered under the Act. The regulations provide appropriate machinery for approval by the board of training schools for male nurses, and for their training-and examination. The period of training and the standard of examination for male nurses is similar to that required of nursing aids. To qualify as a male nurse two years’ training in an approved training school is necessary.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22325, 9 May 1947, Page 2
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