VPRS 17595 Nursing Education Tutors' Remarks Books

Administrative History on Nursing Education:In circa 1859, Melbourne-Lying-In Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children (now The Royal Women's Hospital) commenced training in midwifery nursing. The Hospital established a formal three months certificate course in 1862 and a Gynaecology course in 1888. Up until 1993, these two training schemes were the platform of the nursing education programme; throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, midwifery and gynaecology training was extended, shortened, and re-shaped, to cope with the hospital's exigencies and changing government regulations.The Women's became a centre for general nursing training during the 1940s and 1950s. This course had an emphasis in gynaecological nursing, but also included an external placement with another hospital, for the students to extend their training and experience in other areas of nursing.A range of other training courses were conducted or facilitated by the hospital, responding to advancements in medical technology. These included: Neonatal Paediatrics; Cytotoxic Drug Therapy; Family Planning etc.The Kathleen Syme Education Centre at The Royal Women's Hospital school closed in 1993 when the nursing courses in Midwifery, Gynaecology and Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing became university postgraduate qualifications rather than hospital based courses.Series Description:This series comprises the Nursing Education Tutors' Remarks Books. These volumes cover the years 1963 to 1985 and are most likely the remaining collection of a much larger sequence of records. The training courses represented in these volumes include: Student Nursing Aid / State Enrolled Nurse (S.E.N.); Registered Nursing Aid Theatre Course; Post Graduate Gynaecology; Reorientation and General Nursing (students from other hospitals e.g. Repatriation General Hospital doing their Midwifery / Gynaecology component at The Royal Women's). The books are a record of each tutor's remarks on their student's demonstrations of procedures and supervised experience within the Gynaecological wards.Most of the Tutors' Remarks Books were compiled in alphabetical self indexing volumes ("Universal Account Books"), arranging the entries by student's surname. The student information was presented in a double page column format. The hand-drawn columns comprise the following headings: Name; Date; Demonstration; Date; Supervision; Comment; Date; Supervision; Comment; Manner & Appearance; Application & Ability. Some of the earlier volumes were compiled in hard bound exercise books with the order of entries by course and not by surname. The format and contents of the volumes was very systematic across the two decades represented in this series.