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Tuesday, September 4, 1973
NEW TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES
A midwifery training school is to be built on the roof of Queen
Elizabeth Hospital to provide better facilities for the training of student
nurses,
At present, midwifery training is carried out in the dining/sitting
room area of the sisters quarters, which is divided into two temporary
classrooms by movable partitions.
The new training school will have four classrooms with accommodation
for 140 students, a practical demonstration room, a library, a pantry, and
three tutorial staff offices. It will cover a total floor area of 4,400
square feet on the roof over ward A-11 of the hospital.
It will provide proper accommodation for student nurses to undergo
a 12-week training period in obstetric nursing, which will be included in
the general nursing syllabus to ensure that locally trained nurses will
qualify for training as sister tutors in England and Australia.
Besides initial courses, the new school will also run refresher
courses for practising midwives once every five years, and provide other
refresher courses for sisters and senior nursing staff to keep them abreast
with the latest developments in general and midwifery nursing.
Work on the conversion of the roof is expected to begin early next
year and should take about six months to complete.
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