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(b) Woodford County High School: Miss K. M. Chapman,
M.A., states as follows
" With regard to Pre-nursing and tuition in allied subjects, our
procedure until recently has been to have what is called a prenursing
course, which is registered with the Ministry of Education
and the General Nursing Council, and at times we use it. We still
have a considerable number of girls each year taking what in one
6ense is a pre-nursing course, in that it gives them full exemption
from Part I of their preliminary examination in hospital and which
gives them a good sound varied education coupled with human
biology. They take the Ordinary Level examination in human
biology and this gives them the necessary exemption equivalent to
taking Part I of the Pre-Nursing examination.
(c) William Morris County Technical School.—Mr. H. P.
Williamson, M.Sc. (Educ.), B.Sc., reports as follows :—
"A most interesting and useful school course is one leading
to exemption from Part I of the General Nursing Council's
Preliminary Examination.
"The curriculum includes English and other usual school subjects
on its general side and on its "special" side the study of
general science, anatomy and physiology, hygiene and the elements
of public health.
"Also necessary and most interesting features of the Course
are visits to hospitals, welfare departments, milk pasteurisation
plants, and public services such as water works and sewage disposal
plants. Even visits to see the operation of ventilation systems are
often undertaken.
"Girls who have followed this Course have found it not only
interesting in itself but of the greatest value to them when, at 18
years of age, they began their nursing training at a hospital. Time
and again girls who have followed a pre-nursing course at school
have stressed how much the knowledge gained had helped them and
made easier their studies while training in hospitals.
"Recognition by the General Nursing Council allows pupils
to take the Council's Preliminary Part I Examination while still at
school, this exemption from Part I of the examination also being
possible through a G.C.E. pass in Human Biology.
"William Morris Technical School, among others, offers these
opportunities to girls—and for that matter boys—wishing to become
nurses, and the Headmaster's regret is that not more girls and boys
feel the call for the satisfying, though strenuous, career of nursing.
Those who do, come back to see their old school from time to time
and their enthusiasm is ample evidence of the rightness of their
choice of career and of the sound basis laid by the Pre-Nursing
Course at school."