New Zealand Gazette – 1926 – No. 20

Page 863

✨ Nurses and Midwives Registration Act Regulations



APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 863

  1. Drugs: Classification; term used to distinguish their action—aperients, diaphoretics, hypnotics, &c.; doses of those more commonly used; dosage according to age. Idiosyncrasies of certain patients, &c.
  2. Poisons: Symptoms of most common—carbolic, opium, strychnine, mercury, phosphorus, arsenic, atropine, hydrocyanic acid, digitalis. Emergency treatment for poisoning.

Surgical Nursing.

  1. Bandages and bandaging: padding of splints; application of strapping, plaster-or-paris; massage; surgical application of electricity.
  2. Instruments, names, uses and care of; instruments required for various operations.
  3. Inflammation: Definition, description, and termination; causes; treatment.
  4. Sepsis and asepsis; personal asepsis; toxins, antitoxins, immunity; phagocytosis; suppuration; abscess; sinus and fistula; gangrene; toxæmia; septicaemia; pyæmia; erysipelas; tetanus.
  5. Ulceration: Ulcers, varieties and treatment; skin-grafting.
  6. Wounds: Definition, process of repair and treatment; burns, scalds—description and treatment.
  7. Hæmorrhage: Definition; internal and external; capillary, venous, arterial; hæmophilia and scurvy; constitutional effects of hæmorrhage, and treatment; arterial hæmorrhage—primary, reactionary, secondary; temporary arrest of same; points of compression of the main arteries of the body; venous and capillary hæmorrhage, treatment.
  8. Operations: Antiseptics, description; preparation of hands; preparation of patient for operation; preparation of instruments, solutions, swabs, sponges, dressings, ligatures, &c.; methods of sterilization; preparation of theatre and room which patient is to occupy; duties of nurse during operation.
  9. After-treatment of various operations: Nurse’s duties and responsibilities.
  10. Fractures: Definition, classification, management; splints, plaster-of-paris, extension apparatus.
  11. Injuries to joints; sprains; dislocations; rupture of muscles and tendons.
  12. Surgical emergencies: Pulse; collapse; shock, symptoms and treatment; retention of urine; acute peritonitis; strangulated hernia; head-injuries; insensibility; delirium; acute obstruction to respiration by foreign body or disease; acute dilatation of the stomach.

Elementary Hygiene.

  1. Air: Composition; impurities; ventilation, amount required; natural and artificial ventilation of sick-room and hospital ward.
  2. Food: Classification of foods; dietaries; preparation and serving of food.
  3. Sanitary fittings: Traps on drains; ventilation of drains; flushing; special hospital fittings; sterilizers.
  4. Dampness of dwellings.
  5. Infectious diseases: Incubation period; quarantine.
  6. Disinfection: Deodorants, antiseptics, disinfectants; disinfection of persons, clothes, rooms, and contents; treatment of discharges.
  7. Personal hygiene: Clothing; exercise, bathing.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.



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🏥 Amendment to Nurses and Midwives Registration Act Regulations (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
22 March 1926
Nurses, Midwives, Registration Act, Regulations, Amendment, Instructional Course, Syllabus, Anatomy, Physiology, Nursing, Medical
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council