NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 14 May 1935, Page 8

NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL

Founding of Scholarship APPEAL TO DOMINION The New Zealand Bed Cross, through its chairman, Major J. Abel, V.D., has issued a national appeal for assistance towards the provision of a scholarship fund which will enable a well qualified nurse to be sent each year to London for a post-graduate course at the Bedford College for Women (University of London), which is associated with the College of Nursing. The courses, in which the holders ol scholarships will have intensive training during a year, comprise public health, administration, and teaching in schools of nursing and social work. At the conclusion of this special training the graduates will be under agreement to return to New Zealand, where their knoweldege and experience will be beneficial to the community. This project is in accordance with a resolution of the International Council of Nurses and the League of Bed Cross Societies (which have been established in sixty-one countries) to promote the Florence Nightingale Internationa] Foundation, of which the objects are to establish and maintain a permanent international memorial to Florence Nightingale in the form of an endowed trust for post-graduate nursing education and to provide for the maintenance and development of facilities for post-gradu-ate education for selected nurses from all countries.