The New Director Of Nursing

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1949, Page 9

The New Director Of Nursing

Miss E. R. Bridges will succeed'Miss M. I. Lambie, 0.8. E., as Director of Nursing at the Department of Health at the end of the year. Miss F. J. Cameron will assume the newly created position of Assistant Director of Nursing, and Miss A. B. Sumner follows Miss Bridges as principal of the Post-Graduate School of Nursing, Wellington, a new title for the position of senior instructor. All three women have had considerable hospital board nursing experience and all have observed nursing trends overseas. They are #ll registered nurses and midwives and all hold the post-graduate diploma in nursing. Miss Bridges joined the department as a nurse-instructor in 1937 and is at present senior nurse-instructor at the post-graduate school. She recently returned to the Dominion after representing New Zealand at a conference of the International Council of Nurses in Oslo and Stockholm and at the Commonwealth and Empire Health and Tuberculosis Conference in London. During her time overseas she visited many hospitals to observe developments in he nursing world. In 1935 she was awarded a Florence Nightingale Memorial Scholarship. Miss Cameron nas been a nurse instructor at the Post-graduate School of Nursing since 1939. She joined the department in 1933 and was a district health nurse in Wanganui and a staff sister at St. Helens Hospital for varying periods. Before taking up her present position in 1939, Miss Cameron took a special course of study in medical social work at the Toronto University, later observing public health work in the United States and in Britain. In America she was under the guidance of the Rockefeller Foundation. A nurse inspector in the department’s head cilice, Miss Sumner joined the department in 1938 She was at first working as a district health nurse at Frasertown and, for tour years to June last year, as a nurse inspector at Gisborne In 1947 she spent a year in Britain under a nursing exchange scheme ana for this period was in charge of a maternity and child welfare clinic in’London. Add Hansell’s Imitation Butter Food Flavouring to lard, dripping, or fats and cakes and pastry will taste as thougn "made with butter.” Hansells Laboratories Ltd., Opaki Rd., Masterton.