NURSES’ TRAINING

Grey River Argus, 11 September 1930, Page 5

NURSES’ TRAINING

I PRIVATE HOSPITALS j Alterations in the Bill (Special to Argus)- , | WELLINGTON, September 10. | Considerable alterations have been lii.'ide by the Health Committee of tlie' ‘House to the Nurse.’ ami Mid wives’: oH-o-Uti-ation Bill, wb.ieli seeks to have, the private hospitals of an . standard approved as trailing ’ for nurse . . < I lieport.ng to the House this after-, 'noon, the Chairman 01 the R ; al ! .Committee, MClinfeifd. said tha much evidence of the Bill’s proposals] was tal.-eu from all interested parties,; and the unanimous opinion of the Committee was that the Bill should !proceed as amende J ! Mr CUnki.rd explained that the] Committee had amended the Bill so’ Iris to provide that a public hospital 'might be approved as a limited tram-, ing school but that no private hospital should be so approved. A pn-, vote hosp-tal might be approved only i as a complete training . ehool for nurses. In addition, no private hospital should be so approve i. unless' I provision were made in it for notl fewer than forty beds to be available lat all times by patients receiving nur-ing and hospital service without, charge er for an inadequate ehailg'O.: The condition originally proposed by. [the Bill was that the daily average! .occupied'a number of beds for six months immediately preceding the date of application was to be fifty- or upwards. . Further alterations, he said, were 'that the Boaild shoul i not approve ofj any- private hospital as a training ichool until it was satisfied that tirej standard of training and instruction; ill theoretical and practical nursing) to be given, would not be 1 lower in[ any. respect than the standard "f ( training and instruction afforded at those public hospitals already ap-. p:\iwd as eompl'-lc training schools. | Alf divnkard explained that thati provision "- is ma‘ e to safeguard re-, i iprueity with Brita n in regard to| the reglstraton of nurses. To iur-1 tl’.er safeguard the- agree-, meat between Britain and New Zea-l laud, the Committee r-wommended tiiat the approval of any private hos | pityrl as a training school be revoitc i| if the da'-lv average number of oe-[ copied beds of the public class in, any period of twelve months fell be-i loti- thirty, or if the Board were satisfied after’ reasonable' inquiry, .hat tire .daiidarl of training and instruction was below the standard requiredj by the General Nursing Council oft England and Wales. f The <'-inndt I. added Mr Clinknrd.’ 'had milled a new -lause providing for* tlie ]i ,r ht of appeal .from the dcc-iions of the Boar'. ;