SUCCESSFUL NURSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 4

SUCCESSFUL NURSES

POST-GRADUATE COURSE The 1935 session of the post-gradu-ate course for nurses terminated last Friday in Wellington, when the diplomas wore presented by Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health. Dr. Watt, in addressing the nurses, referred to the dose personal interest Sir Alexander Young, Minister of Health, had always taken in the course. Ho said the course had been in operation since 1928, and 87 nurses had been awarded tho diploma. Its influence had now begun to permeate the New Zealand nursing world with excellent results, and it was noticeable that post-graduate nurses held increasing numbers of important hospital positions where their work was much appreciated. New Zealand nurses had always held a high reputation in tho eyes of the world, but probably never higher than at present. During the past two years New Zealand had been approached by other countries and municipalities from so far afield as Shanghai to supply nurses for charge positions. Among the students attending the course this year was the assistant matron of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, who was granted a scholarship bv the Rockefeller Foundation for this purpose. Bursaries granted included one by the Waipawa Hospital Board to a senior sister. The nurses who gained their diploma in hospital administration ana the teaching of nursing were:—Miss K. Bourke, Wellington; Miss M. Black, Waipukurau: Miss M. Duthie, Blenheim; Miss I. Hawkins, Waikato; Miss 1C Hughes, Suva, Fiji; Miss A. Stokes, Auckland; Miss A. Tothill, Wellington.