NURSING PROFESSION
REGULATING ADMISSION.
DISCUSSION AT WHANGAREI.
Members of the Whangarei Hospital Board on Monday expressed the opinion that to stipulate for a recommendation from the Nurses’ and Midwives’ Registration Board would be a poor way of lessening the applications for admittance to the nursing profession. In view of the large number of applicants for positions as maternity nurses, the Registration Board suggested that it be a strong recommendation to all controlling authorities to require persons desiring to train as maternity nurses to be in possession of a certificate that they have had two years’ post-primary education. It was felt by some members of the board that owing to the short period of training undergone by those qualifying as maternity nurses it was essential that they should have a satisfactory general education on which to base their additional tuition.
The board decided to leave the selection unreservedly to the matron, as in the past, and also to take no action at present in connection with the Wellington Board’s suggestion for a base hospital. Under the proposed scheirje Whangarei would be a" base hospital to serve the whole of North Auckland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1932, Page 10
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