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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

4. Respiratory system: Respiration, definition; respiratory apparatus with structure of each part; mechanism of respiration; respiratory rhythm; types of respiration; changes in air by respiration; changes in blood during respiration; conditions of gases in blood; regulation of respiration; apncea; dyspncea; asphyxia.

5. Digestive system: Classification of foods; object of digestion, mastication, and swallowing; secretory glands, with uses of their secretions; structure and position of various digestive organs; sketch of digestive process; absorption.

6. Secretion and excretion: Definition; differences between secreting organs; excretory organs—structure of kidney; urine; structure and uses of skin.

7. Animal heat: Temperature of body; loss and gain of heat in body; regulation of body temperature.

8. Nervous system: Functions of cerebrum, cerebellum, pons, and medulla; afferent and efferent nerves; functions of spinal cord; reflex action.

General Nursing.

1. Qualifications of a nurse, and her limitations.

2. Ethics of nursing—i.e., nurse’s duty to the patients, doctor, matron, patients’ relatives, other nurses, and herself.

3. Bedmaking; washing and care of patient; sponging fever patients; moving to second bed.

4. How to take temperature, pulse, and respiration.

5. Administration of food, medicines, powders, and nauseous draughts; use of nasal and stomach tubes.

6. Administration of enemata.

7. Baths—hot-air, steam, medicated, electric, and sun.

8. How to report cases.

9. External applications: Poultices, fomentations, packs, blisters, leeches, strapping, &c.

10. Hypodermic medication.

11. Bed-sores, prevention and cure; handling and moving of helpless patients; uses of hot bottles, sand-bags, bed-cradles.

12. Consideration of personality of patient.

13. Invalid cookery; household hygiene.

Medical Nursing.

1. General description of duties.

2. Observations of sick, and inferences to be drawn from various symptoms.

3. Circulatory system: General symptoms and nursing-management of cardiac cases.

4. Respiratory system: Symptoms and nursing-management of bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, phthisis-pulmonalis, pleurisy, broncho-pneumonia, pulmonary embolism; sputa.

5. Digestive system: Symptoms and nursing-management of dyspepsia, gastritis, gastric ulcer, colic, peritonitis, ascites, malignant growths; characteristics of vomit; abnormal fæces.

6. Urinary system: Symptoms and nursing-management of renal cases, anasarca, œdema; urine-testing.

7. Nervous system: Symptoms and nursing-management of cerebral meningitis, apoplexy, epilepsy, hemiplegia, paraplegia; general management of cerebral cases, hysteria, neuralgia, neuritis; massage, electricity, treatment for functional cases; Weir-Mitchell treatment.

8. Fevers: Symptoms and nursing-management of cases of enteric fever, measles, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, croup, rheumatic fever, influenza, cerebro-spinal meningitis, infantile paralysis (acute poliomyelitis).

9. General diseases: Tuberculosis, syphilis, scurvy.

10. Skin diseases: Scabies, ringworm, herpes, and eczema.

11. Nursing of children, Common ailments of: gastro-intestinal catarrh, worms, convulsions, croup, chorea, rickets, &c.; feeding of children; idiosyncrasies of children with regard to drugs—morphia, mercury, &c.