TRAINING OF NURSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 82, 5 March 1935, Page 9

TRAINING OF NURSES.

SCHOLARSHIPS GRANTED. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Alarcli 4. The Health Department states that Aliss E. Ivea, a Alaoj'i nurse, who was trained at the Dunedin Hospital, and is at present sister of. the maternity ward at Rotorua Hospital, has been granted a scholarship by the Carnegie Foundation to take a year’s course at the Domestic Science School, Otago University, hi practical arts and crafts, with the object of conducting health education with the Alaori women’s inti tutes. The department also states that Aliss E. Hughes, assistant matron at. the Colonial War Memorial. Hospital, Suva, Fiji, lias been granted a Rockefeller Scholarship to take a post-graduate course in hospital administration in Wellington. Under the new system of exchange, by which nurses from New Zealand will spend six months at the women’s hospital. Melbourne, and nurses from the women’s hospital will work for the same.period at obstetrical work in New Zealand, Aliss M. Davies, of Melbourne, has joined the -staff of St. Helen’s Home, AA 7 ellington, and Sister Aileen Joyce, of St Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, has joined the staff of the AA 7omen’s Hospital, Alelbourne.