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Of Nurses In Fiji
FORTY -TWO nurses from 20 countries in the western Pacific, New Zealand, Australia and south-east Asia are at Suva for a public health nurses’ seminar in session from July 4 to July 28.
Fiji has contributed eight delegates to the seminar, which has been organised by the World Health Organisation.
Nurses from Korea, Japan, Sara wak, Brunei, Hongkong, Singapore, Malaya, Vietnam, Guam, the Philip pines, Formosa, Papua-New Guinea and the Caroline Islands linked up with the Australian delegation at Sydney for the flight to Fiji.
in 1953, is Miss Nora Conway, a tutor sister at the Singapore General Hospital, Miss Joyce Jones, of the Euro pean Hospital, Port Moresby, is representing Papua-New Guinea, Subjects for discussion include the basic education of nurses, with particular reference to clinical nursing practice; the relationship of hospital and nursing services administration to educational pro grammes for nurses; the prepara tion of nurses’, doctors’ and other post-graduate programmes and the relation of such programmes to Klie requirements of a health service of a country, and the preparation of auxiliary nurses and midwives.