New Zealand Gazette – 1930 – No. 51

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✨ Nurses and Midwives Registration Act



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

  1. Hæmorrhage: Internal and external; capillary, venous, arterial; hæmophilia; 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.

  2. Operations: Antiseptics; 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.

  3. After-treatment of various operations: Nurse’s duties and responsibilities.

  4. Fractures: Definition, classification, management; splints, plaster-of-paris, extension apparatus.

  5. Injuries to joints, symptoms and nursing-management of: Sprains; dislocations; rupture of muscles and tendons; common deformities of bones and joints.

  6. Surgical emergencies, symptoms and nursing-management of; Collapse and shock; 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.

  7. Common tumours, simple and malignant, signs and symptoms of.

  8. Common surgical conditions, symptoms and nursing-management of.

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.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

Form No. 1.] [Reg. 5 (6).

The Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925.

APPLICATION TO SIT FOR STATE EXAMINATION IN NURSING.

Hospital:
Date:

To the Registrar of Nurses and Midwives,
Health Department, Wellington.

I, [Full name], trained at __ Hospital, desire to sit for the State examination in nursing to be held on __. I am __ years of age, the date of my birth being __. I forward herewith certificate of having passed the prescribed hospital examinations in nursing, anatomy and physiology, and cookery, and enclose the fee of £2 for examination and registration under the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925.

[Signature: . . . . . . . . . . .

NOTE.—The fee may be paid to Public Account at any branch of Bank of New Zealand, in which case the bank receipt must accompany the application. Payment may also be made by postal note or money-order. If remitted by cheque exchange must be added.



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

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Nurses, Midwives, Registration, Regulations, Practice, Equipment, Sterilization, Hygiene, Anatomy, Physiology, Nursing

🏥 Application Form for State Examination in Nursing

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Nurses, Midwives, Examination, Registration, Application, Form