Tauherenikau Camp

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XI, Issue 3, 1 July 1918, Page 134

Tauherenikau Camp

At this camp, which is a training school for the N.Z.M.C. orderlies, two sisters are stationed. Their chief duty is to teach the orderlies all they can, in a short time, of nursing. There is a ward for patients in which practical teaching is given, and every day the sisters in turn deliver a lecture to a large class composed of all classes of men. This at first is an ordeal to the sister, as many of her pupils are medical students, divinity aad law students, as well as men of all classes of society. However, these men listen intently to the lectures, and the medical officer in charge is much pleased with the work of the sisters. They have quite comfortable quarters, and though perhaps a little isolated as they are over a mile away from the camp hospital, they are quite happy at Tauherenikau. Below is a list of the twenty-four lectures which constitute the sisters' part of the curriculum for the medical orderlies : — 1. Bed-making, temperatures, pulses, chart-marking. 2. Medicines, administration of, sponging patient.

3. Typhoid. 4. Nephritis. 5. Typhoid continued ; preparation for catheterisation ; urinalydis. 6. Pneumonia. 7. Counter irritation. 8. Bronchitis ; pleurisy : asthma. 9. Enema. 10. Phthisis ; collection of sputum. 11. Anaesthetic table; anaesthesia. 12. Preparation and after treatment ; operation. 13. Plaster case ; nutrient enema ; stomach tube. 14. Wounds aad their management. 15. Head injuries. 16. Diphtheria ; antitoxin syringe. 17. Dysentery ; cholera. 18. Heart cases ; rheumatism. 19. Malaria ; Malta fever. 20. Gastric nursing ; management of jaundice. 21. Collection of faeces, vomitus. and general observation of patient. 22. [nstruinents ; peptonising milk, etc. 23. C.S.M. 24. Scarlet fever : measles.