ORAL AND PRACTICAL.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XI, Issue 3, 1 July 1918, Page 122

ORAL AND PRACTICAL.

2. What are a nurse's duties (a) in preparing a patient for an anaesthetic, (b) in nursing him subsequent to it ? What complications may arise, and how should they be met in the absence of the surgeon ? 3. What nerve is often damaged in fracture of the Nf humerus ? What are the symptoms of /\ its paralysis, and what precautions should a nurse take in looking after such a case ? 4. What is — eusol, ambrine, bipp, pituitary extract ? Describe briefly how each is and for what conditions. 5." You are asked to fetch a Thomas knee splint from the spJint room, and to make the necessary preparations for its application. What factors should decide your selection "r-^ of the splint and what preparations would » ■* you make ? Are there any special points in nursing cases with these splints on ? 6. What is an empyema ? What instruments would you prepare for the operation for its relief. The Examiner promises some comments on the answers later on. RESULTS. Name. Hospital. Passed fiist : — Doris E. Menzies Auckland The following nurses obtained 75 per cent, or over : Da vies, Myrtle Wellington Mackenzie, Barbara A. Wellington Kendall, Joan Angela C. Wellington Kelly, Mary Wellington O'Callaghan, Emily Wellington Luke, Jacobina Campbell Wellington Pickens, Annie L. Auckland Wyllie, Gertrude L. Auckland Moynihan, Ellen Auckland Macky, Nora Auckland Hunt, Evelyn D. Auckland Matheson, Margaret I. Auckland Livermore, Marjorie Auckland Battersby, Alice Auckland Clark, Maud G. Auckland Richards, Gertrude A. Christchurch McLean, Alice Christchurch White, Lily L. Christchurch Stouppe, Monica Lloyd Wanganui Johnson, Annie Isabel Wanganui Griffin, Adelaide C. Palmerston North Nicoll, Harriette A New Plymouth Butler, Evelyn M. Waikato Kidd, Doris S. Waikato Slack, Hilda M. Waikato Graham, Catherine Waikato Vaughan, Alice D, Napier Harvey, Beatrice M. Napier Bernau, Gladys M. Napier Tarleton, Teresa I. Gisborne Dore, Mary J. Wairoa Webster, Jessie Greymouth Mears, Catherine Westport Jones, Hilda Westport Robinson, Mildred D. Westport Stevenson, Helen Southland Young, Fanny Southland Lamont, Francos Southland Riordau, Bridget M. Southland Frasor, Elizaboth Timaru

With regard to the oral and practical Examination, the questions and tests set by the Department as a basis for the examination were : — QUESTIONS. 1. In the nursing of children what special nursing precautions are necessary as to regularity of bowels, sleep, teething, colic, croup, earache, chorea, and rickets ? 2. (a) Give dietary in early convalescence from typhoid fever ; (b) Gastric ulcer. 3. Make peptonised milk, barley water, or an egg flip. How do you make calf's foot jelly and white wine whey ? 4. Give the usual temperature of a case of acute lobar pneumonia in the first week. How does the illness begin ? 5. Pick out the following splints., and explain the purposes for which they are chiefly used : — Macintyre, Neville, Liston, Cline, Sharpe's or Roughton's, Hodgen's, Carr's. 6. Make (a) a plaster of Paris bandage and say how it should be applied ; (b) a gum and chalk stocking7. (a) Give ingredients of a nutrient enemata and nasal feed ; (b) Mention some good mouth washes ; (c) What enemata would you give for shock and thirst ? 8. Make a bed for treatment of fractured spine. 9. How to save and measure urine, (a) How do you collect a specimen from a child too young to understand what is wanted ? (b) Test urine for sugar, blood, bile ; Give tests for uratos. 10. Get the things ready for washing out the bladder. Cleanse a gum elastic catheter. 11. Prepare a hot-air bath. The report from one centre expresses great dissatisfaction with the practical work shown, especially in regard to numbers 1, 3 8, 10, 11. These are essentially nursing duties with which all qualified nurses are expected to be well acquainted and expert. It is to be feared that some of the training schools do not sufficiently recognise the importance of teaching not only the methods in vogue in that particular school, but all the chief accepted methods of medical treatment which though sometimes laid aside for a time in favour of newer ideas, may again be adopted, and should be known at least in theory, or a nurse may be at a great disadvantage when she leaves her hospital for the wider field before her. SURGICAL NURSING. QUESTIONS. I. What is meant by continuous proetocleiais ? Describe how you would apply this treatment in a case of perforated gastric ulcor subsequent to operation. *

Bull, Margaret Timaru Brown, Erica Timaru The remaining nurses were also successful : — Hally, Isabella A. Wellington Burnett, Helen Wellington Wall, Miriam Wellington Campbell, Jessie Wellington Robinson, Arabella G. Wellington Mackay, Ada Miwins Wellington Little, Mabel Wellington Gair, Eliza Wellington Williams, Elizabeth Nelson Herne, Florence Nelson Murphy, Madge Blenheim Egley, Gertrude Picton Campbell, Margaret Rea Auckland Ansenne, Nora Auckland Green, Erica Auckland Murphy, Rose Darling Auckland Palmer, Dorothy M. Auckland 'McLean, Harriet Isabelle Auckland Bason, Edith Mary Auckland Cranch, Annie Muriel Auckland Shapland, Olive Hokianga Sinclair, Jessie Dunedin 'Martin, Cecilia E. Dunedin Ashcroft, Bertha W. Dunedin Makeig, Dorothy A. Dunedin Fleming, Jessie Dunedin Lawson, Isobel S. Dunedin Vyner, Mavora L. Dunedin Tucker, Mary Ursula Dunedin Tyson, Margaret C. Dunedin Pratt, Sarah Elsie Dunedin Mercer, Muriel Dunedin Fletcher, Anne Dunedin Farquharson, Isabella Dunedin Kinmont, Harriet F.M. Dunedin Nichol, Isobel M. Oamaru McEachen, Ethel Marie Christchurch Turner, Edna Helena Christchurch Paterson, Ethel Amy Christchurch Cronin, Henrietta Christchurch Henderson, Clara F. Christchurch McClatchie, Erica Patti Christchurch Seed, Elsie Evelyn Christchurch Brophy, Edith Grace Wanganui Livingston, Eliza Wanganui Mclntosh, Ethel Agnes Wanganui Nielsen, Ruth Salome Priscilla Palmerston North Jemison, Sarah Hilda New Plymouth Hamblyn, Edith Mary New Plymouth Taylor, Agnes Jane New Plymouth Stanton, Violet Constance Irene New Plymouth Hodge, Elizabeth Mary New Plymouth Langlands, Mary Sangster New Plymouth Madill, Jessie Waikato Geraghty, Marcella R. Waikato Yeats, Esma Napier Noble-Campbell, Katie Alice Napier Miller, Ella Westport Harkness, Dorothy Westport Barnes, Ada Southland Brunton, Elizabeth Timaru Coakley, Katherine Timaru The following nurses obtained a partial pass : — Gillespie, Margaret R. Wellington (Passed Medical and Oral)

Muggeridge, Ivy M. Wellington (Passed Medical and Oral) Costello, Mary C. Blenheim (Passed Medical and Oral) Bush, Alice May Picton (Passed Surgical and Oral) Gray, Olive Marion Auckland (Passed Medical and Oral) Ruff, Elizabeth Auckland (Passed Modical and Oral) Hogwood, Hilda B. Whangarei (Passed Medical and Oral) Lane, Margaret H. Hokianga (Passed Surgical and Oral) Maeßae, Jessie Ethel Dunedin (Passed Medical and Oral) McDermid, Gwendolin D. Dunedin (Passed Surgical) Timlin, Mary F. Dunedin (Passed Medical and Oral) Brunt, Beatrice M. Christchurch (Passed Medical and Oral) Smith, Martha L. Ashburton (Passed Medical and Oral) Daniell, Eileen E. Palmerston North (Passed Medical and Oral) Ansenne, Kathleen M. Waikato Surgical and Oral) Brewis, Annie Riro M. Waikato (Passed Oral) Fricker, Emily Penstone Waikato (Passed Medical and Oral) Bailey, Edith Madalene Waihi (Passed Medical and Oral) Keogh, Helen S. Napier (Passed Medical and Oral) Stainton, Mary Napier (Passed Medical and Oral) Mitchell, Ruth Gisborne (Passed Surgical and Oral) Lawrenson, Agnes M. Westport (Passed Medical and Oral) Harrison, Edith Napier (Passed Medical and Oral)