TRAINING OF NURSES
POST-GRADUATE COURSE COMMENTS BY MINISTER [dy TELEGRAPH OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON. Thursday The Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Young, to-day presented certificates to nurses from different parts of New Zealand who have just completed their post-graduato courso in nursing. - Mr. Young, who mentioned that the post-graduato movement was instituted in 1928, referred to the great assistance rendered by the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association in connection with it. The hospital boards had also helped, but unfortunately, owing to the depression, not to such an extent as they would otherwise have done. The Minister spoke in terms of approval of the decision of the International Council of Nurses to support a proposal to raiso £200,000 for the post-graduate training of nurses at Bedford College, London. Up to the present 70 nurses had taken the post-graduate courso in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 10
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