TRAINED NURSES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 81, 2 October 1931, Page 9

TRAINED NURSES

CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON

REMITS ADOPTED

The annual conference of the New Zealand Trained. Nurses* Association was continued yesterday afternoon and

to-day. • ■

.'Nohiinations were made for the vacancies on the Nurses' Eegistratibn Board. ■■•■•••

A'resolution was passed, "Th£ti each branch of the. association be recommended to start a fund to finance a delegate for the 1933 International Conference of ■ Nurses to be held at Paris and Brussells in 1933." : \ It was resolved \that steps be taken to make it tiie rule that at all inquests oh women there should be a nurse or other woman present, and that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to the National Council of Women.

A remit was adopted recommending that where necessary at old peoples' homes and benevolent homes, trained nurses should be employed in future.

A request is to be made to the Government Statistician to' arrange that, when the next Census is compiled, women in giving their occupation be asked whether they are registered nurses, non-registered, or pupil nurses in training^ A committee was appointed to report on the present unemployment amongst nurses and the cause thereof. The following remit was discussed at considerable length:—" Owing to the lack of positions offering for ' fully nurses, some action should be taken to prevent the increasing employment of partly-trained women as private nurses." The conference finally decided that tho remit should be referred to tho executive with power to act.

A deputation is to wait on the executive of the British-Medical Association to state the aims and objects of nursing education and the existing difficulties. , :

The following remit was considered: "That the association make a special effort to send.two or more students^ to the post-graduate course in 1932, using the money held in trust for educational purposes." »On the motion of Miss M' Kenny, it was resolved ''That the money in hand be used to grant bursaries to four or five nurses desirous of taking the course; also, that a recommendation :be sent to hospital boardsthat nurses • desirous of further' education should be given leave of absence." On the motion of Miss Muir, seconded t>y; Miss M'Donald, it was agreed "That the Registration Board tio approached, r.c the possibility of correlation between general and menial hospitals, '■' .

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