New Zealand Gazette – 1925 – No. 86

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✨ Nurses and Midwives Registration Act



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

  1. Traps on drains; ventilation of drains; flushing; sanitary fittings.
  2. Dampness of dwellings.
  3. Infectious diseases: Incubation period; quarantine.
  4. Disinfection: Deodorants, antiseptics, disinfectants; disinfection of person, clothes, rooms and contents; treatment of discharges.
  5. Personal hygiene: Clothing; exercise, bathing.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE FOR MATERNITY NURSES, AND SYLLABUS OF SUBJECTS FOR EXAMINATION UNDER THE NURSES AND MIDWIVES REGISTRATION ACT, 1925.

(a.) The ethics of nursing.
(b.) The duties of a midwife and of a maternity nurse.
(c.) The elementary anatomy of the female pelvis and generative organs.
(d.) The principles of asepsis and antisepsis.
(e.) Antiseptics in midwifery, and the way to prepare and use them.
(f.) Pregnancy and its principal complications, including abortion.
(g.) Obstetrical diagnosis.
(h.) The symptoms, mechanism, and course of normal labour.
(i.) Management of normal labour.
(j.) The signs that a labour is abnormal.
(k.) Hæmorrhage.
(l.) Drugs used in midwifery and their dosage.
(m.) The administration of anæsthetics to the obstetric degree.
(n.) The management of the puerperal patient.
(o.) Taking and recording of temperature, pulse, and respiration.
(p.) Catheterization and urine-testing.
(q.) Obstetric emergencies.
(r.) Puerperal infections.
(s.) The management of infants.
(t.) Infant-feeding, natural and artificial.
(u.) The elements of house sanitation.
(v.) The disinfection of person, clothing, and appliances.
(w.) Cooking and preparation of food.
(x.) Ante-natal examination.

FOURTH SCHEDULE. [Form No. 1

APPLICATION FOR EXAMINATION AS A NURSE UNDER THE NURSES AND MIDWIVES REGISTRATION ACT, 1925.

Hospital:
Date:

To the Secretary,
Nurses and Midwives Registration Board,
Health Department, Wellington.

I, [Full name], trained at Hospital, desire to sit for the State examination in nursing to be held on . I am over twenty-three years of age, the date of my birth being . I forward herewith certificate of having passed the prescribed examinations, and a certificate of Invalid Cookery, together with receipt for fee of £1 for examination and registration.

Signature:

RECEIVED from fee of one pound for examination under the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925.
. . . . . . . . . . . . , Receiver. [P.O. stamp.]

[This portion to be completed and forwarded to the Secretary, Nurses and Midwives Registration Board, Wellington.]

[Perforation.]

RECEIVED from fee of one pound for examination under the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925.
. . . . . . . . . . . . , Receiver. [P.O. stamp.]

[Candidates receipt, to be retained by her.]

[Perforation.]

Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925.—Health Department.

Name:

£1.
. . . . . . . . . . . . , Receiver. [P.O. stamp.]

[This portion to be retained by Postmaster and transmitted with his statement.]



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