THE ORIGIN OF THE BLOOD CELLS

NURSE EDUCATION seems to have come to the cross roads in N.S.W. In all parts of Australia and in most countries of the world, it has been the subject of much thought and inquiry. Major changes have occurred in how it is assessed and effected quite properly, as it must be influenced by changes in medicine and health care generally, in society and in ideas about education. Doctors have watched these changes with interest and in many cases have been actively involved in them, since the work of the medical and nursing professions is ultimately one. Doctors want nurse education to be as good and as appropriate as it can be. For this reason we believe that many doctors in N.S.W. will be as deeply concerned as many nurses are at what has been happening, or not happening, in their State. For years now nurse education in N.S.W. has been under consideration by authorities and committees, Government and otherwise. We have discussed various reports on the subject in these columns and more particularly, in 1968, Part I of the report of the committee set up by the Institute of Hospital Matrons of N.S.W. and the A.C.T.1 followed, in 1969, by the second part of that report and the report of the Truskett Committee appointed by the N.S.W. Minister for Health.P But time has rolled by, and it seemed that nothing was being done. Then on March 28 of this year the Premier announced that Cabinet, having considered a report of an interdepartmental committee set up to examine the recommendations in the Truskett Report, had accepted the advice of that committee. The most important of the recommendations accepted and the most undesirable,