EXAMINER'S COMMENTS ON MEDICAL PAPER.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XV, Issue 1, 1 January 1926, Page 34

EXAMINER'S COMMENTS ON MEDICAL PAPER.

The standard e.f answers was undoubtedly higher than that of any previous papers I have marked, and the average Avas very satisfactory. I should like to suggest that Matrons of hospitals might give their nurses a little advice prior to their sitting for the examination m respect to their methods of attacking the paper set. Candidates shoaild be told that they will not gain marks for matter, correct or otherwise, that is not relevant to the question asked. In these papers it Avas extraordinary the number of candidates who gave themselves the trouble of writing long descriptions of the signs, symptoms, and treatment of Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever. In many cases it was quite obvious that the candidate had made no attempt to read the question carefully. Two rather unique sentences m the papers are almost AV.orth bringing to your notice : (1) The pantriatic juice is pored into the duodenum and converts the Khyam into Khyal , (2) The patient should be given plenty of fresh air and black coffee per rectum. The Examiner's comments on the Surgical Paper are not yet to hand. The folloAving candidates were succcsful m passing: PASSED FIRST. Dunedin Hospital. — Hazel Bentham. 75% AND OVER. Napier Hospital. — Evaline Campbell. Auckland Hospital.— Nellie E. O 'Callighan, Noel E. A. Bedggood, Lucy McLean. Whangarei Hospital. — Doreen McMillan, Ivy Curtis. Auckland and Rotorua Hospitals. — Elizabeth Harris. Napier Hospital. — Eve C. Mackay, Marjorie R. Tuly.

New Plymouth Hospital. — Grace I. Lash, Mavis Orsman. Stratford Hospital.— Mary A. Macßae. Wellington Hospital. — Challis Hooper. Christchurch Hospital.— Jessie M. Wilson, Margaret L. Stevensen, Dorothea Harrop, lima M. Page, Gladys M. Seymour. Timaru Hospital.— Olive M. Clayton. Ashburton Hospital. — Catherine N. Duff. Waimate Hospital. — Margaret Hertslett. Dunedin Hospital.— Frances N. Hagen, Gladys I. Molineaux. Invercargill Hospital. — Margaret J. Barker, Caroline Clark. Auckland Hospital. — Norma J. Laird, Adelc L. Eiffe, Dorothy Gilchrist, Marjorie Mclnnes, Florence G. Fowler, Annie F. Wallace, Eileen M. Reid, Hikitia P. Arthur, Phyllis M. Franks, Edith Copsey, Jean McDonald, Eva E. Smith, Elizabeth M. Read. Whangarei Hospital. — Rita Holland, Maisie Inger. Hamilton Hospital. — Kathleen Steedman, Gladys Civil, Marion K. Coulston, Mary I. Stanley, Ivy Ida Keddie. Waihi Hospital. — Nancy Alexander, Elizabeth Livingstone. Gisborne Hospital. — Florence B. Smith. Napier Hospital. — Winifred J. Cairns, Frances Burdett, Muriel E. Browne. Dannevirke Hospital. — Jane Kirkman. New Plymouth Hospital. — Esma H. Colby. Stratford Hospital. — Lucy Langford. Wanganui Hospital. — Dorothy L. James, Jean Moyes, Ida M. Luoni, Monica MacLeod, May Bourke, Geraldine F. Uniacke, Theresa Brougham Palmerston North Hospital. — Emma Smidt, Annie E. McLaughlan, Agnes E. Clentworth. Taihape Hospital. — Dorothy MacMillan, Alexandra M. Ryan. Wellington Hospital. — Marjorie Allport, Ellen Fairweather, Monica Bright, Janet Larkman, Margaret Greig, Constance M. Young, Mona Beggs, Bessie E. Lees, Olive R. Barron, Dorothy E. Thomas, Elizabeth M. Jewiss, Helen C. McGregor. Greytown Hospital. — Mary Stewart. Masterton Hospital. — Christina Melrose. Christchurch Hospital. — Helen A. Musgrave, Catherine E. McCahon, Amy E. H. Coe, Barbara

Musgrave, Marjorie M. Hawkes, Marion C. Smith, Irene J. Sparrow. Greymouth Hospital.— Mary W. Canning. Westport Hospital. — Marion Martin. Timaru Hospital.— Christina R. Price, Madge Violet Cox, Magdaline B. Scott, Agatha E. Harvey. Ashburton Hospital.— Doris M. Lucas. Waimate Hospital.— Winifred Graham, Marjorie Neill. Dunedin Hospital.— Mary R. Allen, Doris I. Watson, Amy T. Menzies, Emmeline Taylor, Hilda E. Pullan, Mary Lovie. Invercargill Hospital.— Elsie J. Price, Florence T. Young, Mary A. Traynor, Hanoria Casey. Riverton Hospital.— Vena M. Sim. THE FOLLOWING OBTAINED A PARTIAL PASS. Whangarei Hospital.- Anne C. WinHev (Medical). * J

Hamilton Hospital.— Elizabeth Duncan (Medical and Oral), Ruth E. Hunter (Medical and Oral), Kathleen Johnstone (Oral). Gisborne Hospital. — Adelaide M. Kerrison (Oral), Grace A. Wood (Oral). Masterton and Gisborne. — Agnes Campbell (Medical and Oral). Wairoa Hospital.— Ella D. Ennor (Oral). Wellington Hospital.— Ruth Scott (Surgical), Elspeth Aldridge (Medical), Eileen Marryatt (Surgical and Oral). Masterton Hospital.— Phoebe Aitcheson (Surgical and Oral). Dannevirke Hospital.— Winifred E. Manning (Medical). Waimate Hospital.— Mary Willis (Surgical). Dunedin Hospital.— Gwendoline Crichton (Surgical and Oral), Grace I. McEwan (Surgical and Oral). N.B.— The above names are not m order of merit. J. G. WILLIS, Director Division of Nursing.