TRAINING NURSES.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 359, 13 February 1937, Page 3

TRAINING NURSES.

HOSPITAL WORK. Annual Conference Of Nurses Opened. j Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, Last Night. “The nursing profession is an integral part of the health services of a country, and it is natural, therefore, for your association and the ; Health Department to work closely together and to have many interests in common,” said Dr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, addressing a conference of delegates of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association in Wellington yesterday. Dr. Watt said that questions which . l r t ad bieen. engaging much at.tfenTTon ■ both by the association and the de- | partment were: The training of I nurses; health of nurses in public hospitals; hours and working conditions both public and private. “On the first,” continued Dr. Watt, “the most important development in the training of general nurses has I been the establishment of preliminary training schools. Eighteen hospitalsl out of the 24 in the Dominion in which training is carried out, now attempt some type of preliminary training ranging from one to three mo>nths(. Cfyrisqchuirch 'v.’as the pioneer and is the model for this phase of nursing education There is. established a separate institution there, apart from the ordinary hospital, where probationers are carefully trained for about th.i]ee-' months' under a full-time tutor-sister.