NURSES AND MIDWIVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26456, 9 May 1947, Page 4

NURSES AND MIDWIVES

NEW BOARD CONSTITUTED WIDE POWERS CONFERRED i P.A. WELLINGTON, May 8. The Minister of Health, Mr' Nordmeyer, announces the gazetting of the Nurses and Midwives Regulations in pursuance of the Nurses and Midwives Act, 1945. With certain exceptions the regulations consolidate the existing regulations. The administration of the regulations is entrusted to the Nurses and Midwives Board whose membership consists of the Director-General of Health (chairman), the Director-Gen-eral of Mental Hospitals, representatives of the Hospital Boards’ Association and of the medical profession, four nominees of the Registered Nurses’ Association and the director of the Division of Nursing as registrar. In addition to the registration of general nurses, midwives, maternity nurses, psychiatric nurses, male nurses, and nursing aids, the board is charged with the training of all nursing personnel, the recognition of hospitals and other institutions as training schools, the conduct of the State examinations, and with the disciplining, if necessary, of persons registered under the act. The regulations provide appropriate machinery for approval by the board of training schools for male nurses and for their training and examination. The period of training and the standard of examination for male nurses is similar to that required of nursing aids. To qualify as a male nurse two years’ training in an approved training school is necessary.