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The following points should be carefully noted:-
(a) You are entitled to be represented at the hearing before the Board by a friend, or by counsel or solicitor, but if you propose to employ counsel or solicitor, you must give written notice to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services at the address mentioned above at least seven days before the hearing.
(b) It is imperative that you should either send to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services before the date fixed for the hearing, or bring with you to the hearing your certificate (and badge).
A copy of the Regulations of the Nursing Board for the Colony of Hong Kong is enclosed, and your attention is directed to Part V of those Regulations.
Date.....
Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
NURSING BOARD FOR THE COLONY OF HONG KONG.
Scheme for Conducting the Examinations.
I. (1) THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.
The Preliminary Examination will consist of
(a) A written part, and
(b) An oral and practical part.
Paper 1, for which one and a half hours will be allowed, will contain three ques- tions in Anatomy and three questions in Physiology. The candidate will be required to answer only three questions, but one of the three questions selected by the candidate must be on Anatomy and one on Physiology.
At the conclusion of the first paper there will be an interval of fifteen minutes.
Paper 2, for which one and a half hours will be allowed, will be issued immediately after the interval. This paper will contain three questions on Hygiene and three ques- tions on Nursing. The candidate will be required to answer only three questions, but one of the three questions selected by the candidate must be on Hygiene and one on Nursing.
The oral and practical part will consist of an oral examination of twenty minutes in Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene, and an examination both oral and practical in Nursing, lasting half an hour.
The written answers on Anatomy and Physiology will be marked by Medical Examiners, the written answers on Hygiene and Nursing, and the whole of the oral and practical examination will be marked by Nurse Examiners.
In order to preserve the practical character of the examination full marks for the oral and practical part will be double the full marks for the written part of the examina- tion.
A candidate who fails to satisfy the Examiners but who reaches a certain standard in either the first subject, viz. :
The paper on Anatomy and Physiology and the oral examination in Anatomy,
Physiology and Hygiene,
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