COMMENTS ON MEDICAL PAPER.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 1 October 1928, Page 191

COMMENTS ON MEDICAL PAPER.

The papers on the whole were only fair. Much unnecessary time was spent on detailing purely medicinal measures of treatment, prescriptions even being written. Details of nursing were in some cases quite secondary. This, however, is essential, and more attention should be paid to it in the teaching of nurses preparing for examination. In practice, no nurse is expected to order medicine, but she is given complete control of the nursing, and she is expected to be able to carry it out satisfactorily. This fault caused many candidates to lose marks.

Questions 1 and 2. — The answers were in most cases poor. The syllabus should be restricted to the main essentials of anatomy and physiology. Questions 3. — This was answered best. Details of diet, although asked for, were not given in quite a number of papers. Question 4. — This also was well ansAvered. Question 5. — The answers were disappointing. Every candidate should know how to nurse an unconscious person. Long details of the medicinal treatment of the various causes of coma were given at the expense of what was asked for, namely, a description of the nursing details of a comatose patient. Question 6. — Several candidates described hypothyroidism. Many answers were good. Question 7. — A few candidates described cholera, instead of chorea. The nursing details were well answered in this question. On the whole, the standard, although low, was satisfactory, there being few failures.