Department of Health State Examinations

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XXII, Issue 1, 1 January 1929, Page 23

Department of Health State Examinations

The State examination for nurses was held on December sth and 6th, 1928. One hundred and sixty-nine candidates sat. Of these 149 passed. Two nurses tied for the first place — Nurse Christina Thomasen, of Napier Hospital, and Nurse Marie F. Farquhar, of Wellington Hospital. Thirtyfour others passed with honours, 16 received a partial pass, and eight failed. The questions set by the examiners were as follows : — > MEDICAL NURSING. 1. What are the various functions of the liver? What disease is benefited by the administration of liver and hoy may is be administered ? 2. Describe the process of respiration. Give the course the air takes. Describe the changes that occur when the inspired air and the blood in the pulmonary capillaries meet. 3. Give the signs and symptoms of scarlet fever. Give the nursing treatment. What complications may arise? 4. Give the composition of cow's milk. How does it differ from human milk? How would you modify cow's milk in order to make it more suitable for feeding to infants? 5. What is meant by — tachycardia, hyperpiesis, rigor, immunity, Kernig's sign? 6. Describe the nursing treatment of a case of acute nephritis. Detail the dietetic treatment required. SURGICAL NURSING. 1. Describe the arrangement of the grey matter in the brain and spinal cord. By what nerve paths does the impulse travel when you elevate the toes of your right foot ? 2. What conditions require the removal of an eyeball? What structures are divided in the operation? Describe the preparation and the nursing treatment after removal. 3. What conditions might demand the operation of tracheotomy ? What signs and symptoms would indicate that the operation was urgent? Give a brief outline of the nursing treatment after the operation. 4. How would you prepare for operation a severe compound fracture of the middlethird of the tibia ? What instruments and appliances would you get ready? 5. What are (a) haemorrhoids and (b) Anal fissure, and what symptoms do they cause? Give briefly the preparation and after-treat-

merit of a patient operated on for haemorrhoids. 6. What is meant by each of the following terms? — Epiphysis, palmar arc!" leucocytosis, tympanites, keratitis, arthrori 'sis, haemophilia, kyphosis, thrombosis. The State examination for Midwives and Maternity Nurses was held on December sth and 6th, 1928. Thirty-seven candidates sat for the Midwi cry Examination, and 29 passed. Nurse Mabel Nelson, Batchelor Hospital, was first ; 20 with honours; seven failed in the written portion and one failed out right. Thirty-five candidates sat for the Maternity Nurses' Examination ; 31 passed. Edith E. Vickers, of Mastertt n Hospital, first ; ninteen others with honours ; one completed a pass ; three failed in the written portion. MATERNITY NURSII G. 1. A pregnant woman wishes to know when she may expect her confinement. How could you determine the probable date? 2. What are the stages of labour? Describe briefly the management of the third stage. 3. How would you care for a premature baby? 4. What precautions would you take to avoid suppression of urine after labour, and how would you deal with it if it occurred? 5. How would you deal with a case of ophthalmia neonatorum ? 6. What advice would you give as to the care and preparation of the breasts during pregnancy? MIDWIFERY NURSING. 1. Give the ■ mechanism of the second stage of labour. 2. What are the forms of sepsis that may affect a puerperal woman? Describe the treatment of mastitis. 3. How would you deal with a case of prolapse of the cord during labour until medical assistance can be obtained? 4. What does the term " rigid os " mean, and how would you diagnose such a case, and how would you deal with it until medical assistance can be obtained ? 5. What do you understand by asphyxia neonatorum? What are the different degrees of asphyxia neonatorum, and how would you treat each degree of this condition? 6. To what causes may irregular vaginal haemorrhages during pregnancy be attributed?