NURSES AND MIDWIVES

Wanganui Chronicle, 12 May 1947, Page 7

NURSES AND MIDWIVES

NEW REGULATIONS PROVIDE FOR NIALE NURSES (P.A.) Wellington, May 3 The Minister of Health (Mr Nordmeyer) announces the gazetting of the Nurses 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 as chairman, the DirectorGeneral of Mental Hospitals, representatives of the Hospital Boards As- . sociation, and of the medical profession, four nominees of the Registered Nurses' Association and the Director, Division of Nursing, as registrai. 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 State examinations and with the disciplining, if necessary, of persons registered under the Act. The regulations provide the appropriate machinery lor 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 Io that required of nursing aids. To qualify as a male nurse, two years’ training in an approved training school is necessary.