PROBLEMS IN NURSING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 775, 23 September 1929, Page 11

PROBLEMS IN NURSING

REFRESHER TRAINING BEGINS IMPORTANT LECTURES For trained nurses of the city and the province, a refresher course occupying a week's programme, opened in Auckland this morning. Originally, it was hoped by officials of the Department of Health, which is conducting the course, to hold the instruction for two weeks. The arrangements have had to be curtailed, but the instruction during the week will yet cover important questions of public health. Lectures by experts in nursing instruction, discussions by the nurses themselves, and opportunities to watch the process of nursing methods will make the course highly valuable. Periodically, the courses are conducted in the larger centres by the department; one refresher course was held successfully in Auckland two years ago. Nurses have shown theninterest in the excellent system, and the results have proved to the department that refresher courses provide an extremely acceptable method of instruction. OPEN TO ALL NURSES The course is not confined to trained nurses employed in public institutions. All nurses are invited to attend any Section of the instruction. The first-day attendance of nurses visited the Auckland Hospital this morning. This • afternoon, in the Nurses’ Home, a general discussion will be held on the hospital ward unit and its teaching function. At the hospital at S o’clock this evening Dr. C. E. Maguire, superintendent at the hospital, will speak at the first of the important lectures. The subject is “The Hospital as it Serves the Community.” Tomorrow morning, a visit will he paid to the hospital laundry, and the afternoon discussion will he on hospital administration. “Nursing Education” will be the subject of a lecture in the evening. Motherhood problems and their investigation form an important programme for Wednesday. Dr. T. L. Paget, inspector of hospitals, will speak on “Modern Obstetrics” at 9.30 a.m. in the Arts Building of the University College. In the afternoon, at 1.30 o’clock, a demonstration visit will take plac,e at St. Helens Hospital. The evening lecture, at the public hospital, will be an address by Dr. Tracy Inglis on toxaemia in pregnancy. SKIN DISEASE PROBLEMS At 9 a.m. on Thursday, skin diseases will be considered at the hospital. Dr. J. A. Watson will be the speaker, and, at 11 a.m., nursing problems in venereal diseases will be discussed. There will be a demonstration visit to the Karitane Hospital, Mount Albert, at 3 p.m., and Dr. T. J. Hughes, medical officer of health, will speak in the evening at the Nurses’ Home on the control of infectious diseases. Nutrition and problems in nursing tuberculosis patients will be subjects for discussion in the Arts Building at 9.30 o’clock on Friday morning. At 2 p.m., a demonstration on diets will be given at the Seddon Memorial Technical College. Mental deficiency will be spoken on by Dr. Ada Paterson in the evening; To end the syllabus on Saturday morning, there will be opinions on nursing problems in general public health.