MEMORANDUM.
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23 MAR 15)
On the supposition that the scheme for salaries of
dressers, &c. in the Straits Settlements is adopted it is estimated
that we should start with 8 dressers.
2. This is deried from the requirements for dressers for an
average of 60 male patients in Civil Hospital and an average 18 male
patients in the Kowloon Hospital.
3.
dresser.
4.
In the Straits about 20 male patients are nursed by one
The salary of a dresser would begin at 2300 a year with an
annual increment of 360 for the first six years.
5. An examination embracing the subjects which are at present
taught to Nurse Probationers should be passed every year during the
first 3 years, the training for which will be as follows, and will
be given by the medical staff of the hospital and the nursing staff:
1st year.
Elementary Anatomy.
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Physiology.
Practical Nursing. Bandaging.
2nd year.
Practical Nursing.
Elementary Surgery in relation to nursing.
Hementary medicine in relatin to nursing.
3rd year.
Practical Nursing.
6.
Lectures on special subjects, e.g. Malarial
Fevers, Plague, Enteric, ào.
For the next 3 years the "Probationer dressers would
cmtinue to receive training in practical nursing from the Sisters
of the wards and to receive more advanced lectures from the medical
officers on the foregoing subjects.
7. This would bring their period of service to 6 years, on the completion of which a final examination on all of their past
work is to be passed before the dressers are put on the permanent
staff, if considered satisfactory in all other respecte.
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