NURSES' EXAMINATION
CRITICISM OF THE QUESTIONS THEORETICAL SIDE OVEREMPHASISED. (Pek United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 2G. - “ The general idea now seems to bn that nurses .should be semi-doctors,” said Dr R. Campbell Begg when the question of the low percentage of passes achieved by the nurses of the Wellington Hospital in the recent. State;examination! was bronght before the meeting of the board to-night. l Dr Begg refuted- the suggestion that an inadequate teaching staff at the hospital was in any; way responsible for the low number of passes. He quoted figures for the past three years when, with the same staff, the percentage of passes had been very high. Dr T. L. Parr observed that a great many of the questions asked at the examination were most unfortunate. Th dr object was not clearly and definitely specified, so that one centre might easily be put at a great disadvantage. Dr D. M. Wilson agreed with Dr Begg that there was a tendency to thrust upon nurses tired from their work a tremendous amount of theoretical study.' The Nurses’. Board was stressing the theoretical side of the work too < much.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22325, 27 July 1934, Page 8
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