Karitane-Harris Hospital

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XXII, Issue 4, 1 November 1929, Page 209

Karitane-Harris Hospital

At Karitane-Harris Hospital, Dunedin, commencing on 14th October, the first of the special short period courses for midwifery and maternity nurses will be initiated. These four-weeks' courses are specially intended for nurses actively engaged m maternity work, and have been planned to meet, as far as possible, the special needs and interests of such. Attention will t>e concentrated chiefly on the care of the mother during the antenatal period, and the needs of mother and baby during the first month after birth. The authorities of the St. Helen's and Batchelor Hospitals have kindly agreed to co-operate by giving instruction m regard to obstetrical emergencies and post-natal maternal hygiene. Lectures will be given by Sir Truby King and Dr. Derrick (Medical Director, Plunket Society) and Dr. Helen Deem (nee Easterfield) will be present for a week during the course. Dr. Deem took the full residential Plunket Nursing Course

at Karitane-Harris Hospital three years ago, and has since done valuable intensive study m connection with breastfeeding.

The special courses will be quite separate and distinct from the Plunket nursing training, and detailed study of artificial feeding and of the baby after the first month and the pre-school child, all dealt with fulh r m the Plunket Nursing Course, will not be included. The primary object of the short course is to make assistance m those aspects of the care of mother and child with which they are specially concerned available to all nurses engaged m maternity work. There will be no competitive examination and no certificate attached to the course.

Exact dates for subsequent courses cannot yet be definitely fixed, but m order to enable nurses to plan free time ahead it has been arranged to hold another course m February, and one m June of next year m any case.