Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1901.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 July 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1901.

The Inspector-General of Hospitals is required under a Government measure which has been launched in the Legislative Council to keep a register of all hospital nurses, in the colony, setting forth their names and qualifications. Those who may be registered are nurses who hold certificates of three years consecutive training as nurses in hospitals, and those who at the time of the passing of the Act have had four consecutive years training and passed an examination in the theoritical and practical nursing. From and after January Ist next every person of twenty-three years of age, who is certified as having three years training as a nurse in a hospital and who pasess an examination is also entitled to registration. Fraudulent registration is to be visited by a penalty of £5 and erasure of name from register. A registered nurse guilty of misconduct is iable to have her name removed from the registrar. The measure is a very necessary one, inasmuch as that it, will give to trained nurses recognised status, and will enable the Kegistrar-General to supply nurses possessing special requirements when wanted by any Hospital.