MIDWIFERY.—3rd June, 1915.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 1 July 1915, Page 149

MIDWIFERY.— 3rd June, 1915.

Time allowed : Three I l . ours. N.B. — Candidates are expected to answer every question. Answers to be brief and to the point. 1. Mention the various signs of pregnancy present during the fifth and sixth months of gestation. 2. Give the care and treatment of the breasts in a primipara both before and after confinement. 3. Describe the management of the third stage of normal labour. 4. What are (a) the premonitory, and (b) the actual signs and symptoms, of eclampsia, and what is the appropriate preventive and curative treatment ? 5. Mention the various more important ways in which sepsis may enter the system, and describe very briefly the different ways in which, it may manifest itself in the puerperal state. 6. State briefly What you know of the causes symptoms, and treatment of any three of the following conditions in the child : — (a.) Ophthalmia of the new-born. (b.) Thrush. (c.) Snuffles. (d.) Convulsions. (e.) Jaundice of the new-born, (/.) Phimosis.