TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MIDWIVES REGULATIONS

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MIDWIVES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 458.13

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MIDWIVES

REGULATIONS

13th August, 1971

LEGAL NOTICE 55 of 1971, as amended by: Legal Notices 87 of 1971,

103 of 1974 and 41 of 1975.

The title of these Regulations is the Training School for

Midwives Regulations.

In these Regulations, "training school" and "school" mean

a training school for midwives, approved by the Council for Nurses

and Midwives.

The training school shall be open to female candidates

only, and no candidate shall be admitted to such school unless -

(a) she is not under twenty-one years of age nor over

thirty-five years of age;

(b) her name is entered in the general part of the register

of nurses kept by the Council for Nurses and

Midwives;

(c) she has, for not less than six months after having been

so registered, practised as a nurse in a general hospital

or in any other institution recognised for this purpose

by the said board; and

(d) she has been approved at a selective interview.

No candidate shall he allowed to join the training school

unless she is certified medically fit to the satisfaction of the Chief

Government Medical Officer.

(1) Candidates shall be admitted to the training school

twice yearly, and the number of candidates to be admitted shall be

fixed from time to time by the Chief Government Medical Officer

at his discretion.

(2) No course of training shall start unless there are at least

three candidates who qualify for admission to the training school.

Each course of training shall last for not less than one year

during which course there shall be imparted theoretical and

practical instruction in accordance with the curricula of studies

approved from time to time by the Council for Nurses and

Midwives, in the compilation of which curricula the said council

shall be guided by the Rules issued by the Central Midwives Board

for England and Wales.

Candidates admitted to the training school shall be known

as student midwives and shall be under the direction of a midwifery

tutor possessing a midwife teacher’s diploma recognised by the

Council for Nurses and Midwives, and such tutor shall be in charge

of the theoretical and practical instruction.

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MIDWIVES

(1) During the course of training, students shall be

required to work in the wards, in the operating theatre and in the

out-patients’ division of the obstetric department of a hospital

approved for the purposes of these regulations by the Council for

Nurses and Midwives, and may be required to perform night duties

at regular intervals.

(2) Student midwives may also be required to attend, under

guidance, at domiciliary confinements and to gain experience in the

care of mother and baby in the home.

(1) During the last two weeks of the course of training

there shall be an examination, known as the assessment

examination, which shall consist of a written and of a pratical and

oral test.

(2)

The written test shall consist of -

(a) a paper containing questions on midwifery and

paediatrics, and

(b) a paper containing questions on social services.

(3) The written test shall be followed by a practical and oral

test dealing with all aspects of midwifery, paediatrics and social

services, at which test candidates will be required to present to the

examiners their record book of instruction and practical work, and

detailed case histories of three patients attended during the course.

(1) A candidate shall not be deemed to have passed the

assessment examination unless she shall have obtained a pass mark

in both papers of the written test as well as in the practical and oral

test.

(2) For the purpose of this regulation, a pass mark means not

less than fifty per cent of the maximum mark obtainable.

A candidate who fails in the assessment examination may

be allowed by the Chief Government Medical Officer to attend the

school for a further period of training so as to enable her to sit for

the next assessment examination, in the test in which she will have

failed to obtain the required pass mark, due to he held in

accordance with these regulations.

(1) The assessment examination shall be conducted by a

board of examiners to be appointed by the Council for Nurses and

Midwives.

(2) The board of examiners shall submit the examination result

to the Council for Nurses and Midwives for approval and

ratification prior to publication.

The assessment examination shall be held twice yearly and

a previous notice of the date of commencement shall be exhibited

on the notice board of the training school at least three weeks

before such date.

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MIDWIVES

(1) A student who intends taking the assessment

examination shall submit to the Council for Nurses and Midwives

an application on a form obtainable at the Department of Health,

accompanied by the prescribed fee.

(2) Each application shall be accompanied by a certificate

signed by the midwifery tutor in charge of the training school to the

effect that the student has attended her full course of training at the

school, and that her conduct has been satisfactory throughout the

course.

(3) A student who is not granted such a certificate may apply

for that certificate after a further period of training as allowed by

the Chief Government Medical Officer in his discretion.

(1) Students who, on the completion of the full period of

training, pass the assessment examination shall be awarded a

certificate signed by the chairman of the Council for Nurses and

Midwives to the effect that the candidate therein mentioned has

undergone the prescribed course of training at the school and has

been approved at the prescribed examination.

(2) Such certificate shall be deemed to be the certificate of

competency in midwifery as is referred to in the Health Care

Professions Act.