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Tuesday, May 30, 1972
ENROLLED ASSISTANT NURSE
Time Limit For Registration Without Examination Extended
Practising nurses who want to register without an examination to
become Enrolled Assistant Nurses have now until the end of the year to do so.
Announcing this today, kr. J. Flinn, Secretary of the Nursing
Board, said the seven-month extension would assist those who had been
insufficiently informed about the issue by their hospitals, and who could
therefore not get their applications to the Board on time.
Enrolment without examination within the new time limit is open
to any person who satisfies the Nursing Board that he, or she:-
* has attained the age of 20.
* is of good character.
has completed a course of training acceptable to the Board.
* has boen engaged in nursing work and duties during the
three years before applying for enrolment.
"Enrolment is designed to give these nurses a status which at
present they do not have," Mr. Flinn emphasised. "It is definitely not
a denigration,"
He assured nurses on these four points:
The Nursing Board is not forcing anyone to apply for
enrolment who do not wish to do so.
• If they do not enrol, they will still be allowed to
practise nursing without breaking the law.
* The Nursing Board cannot stipulate what salaries private
hospitals should pay their staff, as this is entirely
a matter for the hospitals.
But
* After enrolment, nurses can still apply for registration, and
the Board will consider such applications on their merits. even if they do not enrol, they can still apply for registration.
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