TIDE TABLE MENTAL NURSSNG

Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1946, Page 2

TIDE TABLE

MENTAL NURSSNG

Kx-service pcrnonncl wliu licl'ofc tlieir Kcrxicc ivith tlie anncd i'urtcs wero engugod in mirsiiig dulios iu iiiciilal hospilals aro all'octod by roconlly ga/.eUed l'ogulal ious out itlod t ln* Uohabililalioi) (JGychiatric Nursos) Uogulations, 1946. ln aa oxplaiiatury stntouioiil, tlio Kohabilitation Dopartmont says tlial when provisiou was made for the rogistration of psvcliialric nursos under the Nursos and Midwives' Aet. 1943, il was provided that any adequalely trained person who, beforc .lanuary I. 1943, had passed tlie examination proseribed aud couducted by tlio Aleutal Ilospitals Departiuent aiul known as Ihe sotiior c.xamination for niental nursos, could be registcrcd. This provisiou was made. to admil to regist ration those persons.who had already uudergone traiijing aud luid passed tlio o.xaniination roforred to, as tlio now legislation also made provisiou for State exaiuinations and regislratiou in tlio same way as for gencral nurses. Ilowevcr, the position of ex-service-niou who wero engaged in nursing duties in nientiU hospitals -before becoiuing mombers of the armcd fqrces, was brought uiuler notice, aud it was docidod by the Nurses and .Midwives ' Board that it was only fair that they should bo afforded similar opportunity to qualifv for registration, sinee they had been imable, on aecount of their war service, to sit the examination or complete the eourse of training. It was thus decided that discretionary powev should be granted to the board to rqgister for a liiuited period those e.x-service-meii who pass tlie senior exaiuinatiou for mental nurses before the end of 1947, and the new regulations make provision aeeordingly.