Nurses
NURSING STAFF
183. There are three Government hospital schools of nursing. Those at the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary Hospitals are general schools, and that at the Castle Peak Hospital is a psychiatric nursing school. Training at Government schools and at the Caritas Medical Centre is in English. There are also approved schools at the Tung Wab Group of Hospitals, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, where instruction is in Cantonese. Examinations are held by the Nursing Board of Hong Kong and there is full reciprocity of registration between the Board and the General Nursing Council of England and Wales.
Nursing Auxiliaries
184. Two types of course are held for nursing auxiliaries. The general course is of two years' duration. It is undertaken at Kowloon Hospital and consists of theoretical and practical training in basic and routine nursing care of general hospital patients. The psychiatric course, also of two years' duration, is held at Castle Peak Hospital, and consists of theoretical and practical training in the performance of routine nursing duties for, and in the maintenance of custodial care of, psychiatric patients.
Post-graduate nurses
185. Seven qualified nurses who had been sent overseas for further study returned to the Colony having successfully gained post-graduate certificates in nursing education, nursing administration, neuro-surgical nursing and dietetics. A further ten nurses proceeded overseas to study nursing education, theatre service centre technique, intensive care therapy, orthopaedic nursing and dietetics.
Midwifery
186. For registered general nurses a one-year course in midwifery is held three times a year. For student midwives who are not registered nurses a two-year course of training at the Tsan Yuk Hospital, and to a limited extent at other approved training schools, is accepted by the Midwives Board for entry to its examinations.
187. Due to the limited scope of domiciliary midwifery in Hong Kong adequate practical training in this aspect of midwifery cannot be
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given, and full reciprocity of recognition of midwifery qualifications with the Central Midwives Board of England and Wales is not possible.
Health Visitors
188. A nine-month Health Visitors' Course is held yearly for Registered Nurses who also hold a Midwifery Certificate. 15 trained ourses successfully completed this course, which ended in January 1971.
Health Auxiliaries
189. A two-year course for health auxiliaries is held yearly. It provides training in health education and public health nursing, which includes maternal and child health work, training and keeping of records of infectious diseases in general, and of tuberculosis, leprosy and venereal diseases in particular.
RADIOGRAPHERS
190. Training in this sphere continued during the year and examina- tions were held in the Colony for Membership of the Society of Radio- graphers of England for both therapy and diagnostic radiographers.
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
191. The Medical and Health Department Institute of Pathology maintained its in-service training for Medical Laboratory Technicians, the Intermediate Examination of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology of the United Kingdom being held in the Colony, Tech- nicians were also sent to the United Kingdom to obtain the AIMLT qualifications.
OTHER FORMS OF DEPARTMENTAL TRAINING
192. In-service courses of training were continued for dispensers, dental technicians and prosthetists. These do not all lead to recognized qualifications, but prepare those concerned for appointment to per manent posts in Government service after passing a departmental examination.
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