NURSES AND STUDY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 7

NURSES AND STUDY

DO THEY WORK HARD?

WHAT EXAMINATIONS SHOW (Special to “Chronicle.”) AUCKLAND, May 18. Do junior nurses at the Auckland Hospital take their profession seriously as far as examinations are concer/d? Dr. Robert Bedford, who for some years has acted as an examiner, has made some rather caustic remarks in a report to the Boand. * Commenting on nurses in tho first year of their training who sat for examination, Dr. Bedford said: “As a a whole the result was disappointing.” With the exception of the first six nurses, he was of opinion that “they showed little evidence of realising their responsibilities in the matter of systematic study.” The examiners, he said, recommended in this class that the six nurses who failed to gain 50 per cent should be “lief erred” for six months. Twelve candidates in the second year of their training passed with credit. “The remainder were disappointing and five nurses who failed to gain the necessary percentage of marks are deferred for six months,” he said

I It was reported that senior nurses 'showed considerably more evidence of application with their studies. All candidates in their third year who sat passed the examination for hospital I diplomas.