TRAINED NURSES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1928, Page 4

TRAINED NURSES

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. DUNEDIN, Oct. 4. The annual conference of the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association is at present being held in Dunedin. At this morning’s session a telegram was received announcing the death of Miss Stott, a former member of the New Zealand Central Council, and those present stood as a mark of respect to hen memory. It was stated that, Miss Stott, who was matron of Wellington Hospital for about ten years, was convenor of tile first matrons’ conference held in "Wellington last year, and that much of its success was due to her efforts.

The following remits were approved, and it was decided to send them as a recommendation to the Hospital Boards and the Nurses and Midwives’ Registration Board: “That no nurse should be appointed to asi steps position until she has been a staff nurse for at least two years after a. State examination in her own or another hospital, or both.”

“That before a staff nurse is appointed to the position of ward sister she should pass a , further test in (a) practical nursing, (b) ward management, (c) teaching methods.” “That in hospitals where a fourth year’s service is expected of the nurse she shotild have the opportunity during that year of qualifying in one of the f-jUawing:—<a) Mateunfty 'nur&* ing, (b) child welfare nursing, (c) neuropathic nursing, (d) tuberculosis nursing.” • .•