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Training of Probationer Nurses.—In May, 1924, the Isolation
Hospital was recognised by the General Nursing Council as a
training school. This means that nurses who receive two years
training at the Hospital and pass the examination of the Nursing
Council can be registered in the Fever Nurses' Section of the
Register, and on a further two years training (instead of the usual
four) in a General Hospital can be registered as both general and
fever trained nurses.
The usual course of lectures given by the Medical Officers
will therefore have to be considerably extended. It is to be feared
that the syllabus of the course has been made very much too
theoretical. An examination paper in Hygiene for a nurse in her
first year of training could well be omitted, while the subject of
Venereal Diseases included in the syllabus for the second part of
the examination hardly comes within the province of Isolation
Hospital work.
During the year the probationer nurses were prepared for the
examination of the Fever Nurses' Association, and four were
successful in obtaining the certificate.
Extension of Buildings.—From various causes the erection
of the new Nurses' Home and the alteration of the existing one
into a new ward has been much delayed. The Nurses' Home,
which should have been occupied many months ago, is unlikely
to be ready for occupation before Easter, 1925, in consequence
the new ward has not been commenced.
The delay has necessitated a new wooden hut being erected
for sleeping accommodation for the night nurses.