New Zealand Gazette – 1928 – No. 53

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✨ Nursing Training Curriculum



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

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; artificial respiration.
  5. Administration of food, medicines, powders, and nauseous draughts; use of nasal and stomach tubes.
  6. Administration of enemata.
  7. Administration of salines, intravenous, subcutaneous, and rectal.
  8. Baths, hot-air, steam, medicated, electric, and sun.
  9. How to report cases.
  10. External applications: Poultices, fomentations, packs, blisters, leeches, strapping, &c.
  11. Hypodermic medication: Paracentesis; lumbar puncture and aspiration.
  12. Bed-sores, prevention and cure; handling and moving of helpless patients; uses of hot bottles, sand-bags, bed-cradles.
  13. Consideration of personality of patient.
  14. Invalid cookery; household hygiene.
  15. Care of the dead.

Medical Nursing.

  1. General description of duties.
  2. Observations of the patient, inferences to be drawn from various symptoms; saving and examination of all excreta, &c.
  3. Circulatory system: Symptoms and nursing-management of common diseases of heart and blood-vessels.
  4. Respiratory system: Symptoms and nursing-management of common diseases of the respiratory tract.
  5. Digestive system: Symptoms and nursing-management of common diseases of the organs of digestion.
  6. Urinary system: Symptoms and nursing-management of common diseases of the urinary system; urinalysis.
  7. Nervous system: Symptoms and nursing-management of common diseases of the brain, spinal cord, nervous and sympathetic system.
  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), smallpox, chicken-pox, mumps.
  9. General diseases: Symptoms and nursing-management of tuberculosis, scurvy, rickets, diabetes, goitre, anæmias, gout, rheumatoid arthritis, &c.
  10. Symptoms and nursing-management of venereal diseases.
  11. Skin diseases: Symptoms and nursing-management of common diseases of the skin.
  12. Children: Symptoms and nursing-management of common ailments; feeding of children (with special reference to defective feeding).
  13. 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, especially children.
  14. Poisons: Symptoms of commoner; emergency treatment for poisoning.

Surgical Nursing.

  1. Bandages and bandaging: Application of strapping, splints, plaster.
  2. Massage and surgical application of electricity.
  3. Instruments, names, uses, and care of; instruments required for various operations.
  4. Inflammation: Definition, description, and termination; causes; nursing-management.
  5. Sepsis, asepsis, and antisepsis; personal asepsis; toxins, antitoxins, immunity; phagocytosis; suppuration; abscess; sinus and fistula; gangrene; toxæmia; septicæmia; pyæmia; erysipelas; tetanus.


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🏥 Regulations under the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
25 June 1928
Nurses, Midwives, Training, Regulations, Hospitals, Recognition, Revocation