New Zealand Gazette – 1930 – No. 51

Page 2155

✨ Nursing Regulations



JULY 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2155

  1. How to take temperature, pulse, and respiration ; artificial
    respiration.
  2. Administration of food, medicines, powers, and nauseous draughts;
    use of nasal and stomach tubes.
  3. Administration of enemata.
  4. Administration of salines, intravenous, subcutaneous, and rectal.
  5. Baths, hot-air, steam, medicated, electric, and sun.
  6. How to report cases.
  7. External applications : Poultices, fomentations, packs, blisters,
    leeches, strapping, &c.
  8. Hypodermic medication : Paracentesis; lumbar puncture and
    aspiration.
  9. Bed-sores, prevention and cure; handling and moving of helpless
    patients; uses of hot bottles, sand-bags, bed-cradles.
  10. Consideration of personality of patient.
  11. Invalid cookery; household hygiene.
  12. 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 com-
    mon diseases of the organs of digestion.
  6. Urinary system: Symptoms and nursing-management of com-
    mon diseases of the urinary system; urinalysis.
  7. Nervous system: Symptoms and nursing-management of com-
    mon 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, diptheria, croup,
    rheumatic fever, influenza, cerebro-spinal meninigitis, infantile
    paralysis (acute poliomyelitis), smallpox, chicken-pox, mumps.
  9. General diseases: Symptoms and nursing-management of tuber-
    culosis, scurvy, rickets, diabetes, goitre, anaemias, gout, reheu-
    matoid 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 ail-
    ments; 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, anti-
    toxins, immunity; phagocytosis; suppuration; abscess;
    sinus and fistula; gangrene; toxemia; septicemia; pyemia;
    erysipelas; tetanus.
  6. Ulceration: Ulcers, varieties and treatment; skin-grafting.
  7. Wounds: Definition; process of repair; burns, scalds—description and treatment.


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