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Memoir,
Sister Helen
Croll Wilson.
1943
Nurse Classroom
Nurses sit attentively as a Tutor Sister
delivers a lecture in Anatomy. In the
Preliminary Training School new trainee
nurses would learn practical nursing
procedures and attend lectures in
Anatomy and Physiology given by Tutor
Sisters. After two months they would
have to pass an examination before
being allocated to wards. Throughout
the remainder of their four-year course,
they would attend additional lectures
between ward duties. About those
early Anatomy classes – there was
little specific instruction on the female
anatomy and none at all on the male
anatomy. Some male patients delighted
in giving trainee nurses practical
demonstrations on this subject.
Image, NSW State Archives, NRS-4481-3-[7/16087]-St26107
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