SHORTER TRAINING PERIOD
Nurses And Nursing Aids
PA WELLINGTON, Sept. 14., Periods of training for certain classes of nurses are reduced by three months and in the case of nursing aids by six months under an amendment to the Nurses and Midwives Regulations publisned tonight. In -the case of general nurses who train' as psychiatric nurses, the period of training is reduced by one year with power for the Nurses and Midwives’ Board to grant concessions. By the amendment the period of training for general nurses is reduced from three years and three months to three years, and in the case of nursing aids from two years to 18 months. Alterations are also made in the training ■'syllabuses for nurses, and a further provision in the amendment is designed to clarify the duties of midwives and maternity nurses both in private practice and in public hospitals and institutions. In appropriate cases the Nurses and Midwives’ Board may approve two or more hospitals under the control of One governing body as a training school for nurses or male nurses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27495, 15 September 1950, Page 10
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178SHORTER TRAINING PERIOD Otago Daily Times, Issue 27495, 15 September 1950, Page 10
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