Qualifications AANS
| Qualifications of candidates. | 198. A candidate for enrolment as a Sister must be between twenty-one and forty years of age, single, or a widow, and have not less than three years' training and service in Medical and Surgical nursing in a duly recognized civil General Hospital. She must be of British parentage or a naturalized British subject. The candidate will be required to fill in the declaration Form (C.M. Form 1). II.), which will be supplied to candidate by the District P.M.O., and to produce the following documents:- |
(a) Certificate of registration of birth, or, if this be not obtainable, a declaration made before a magistrate giving the date of her birth. | |
(b) Certificate of training (in the original). | |
(c) A recommendation from the Matron of the civil hospital at which she was trained. | |
(d) A certificate from a duly qualified and registered medical practitioner that she is in good health and physically fit for duty in the Australian Army Nursing Service. |
Studio portrait of Staff Nurse (SN) Christine Erica Strom, Australian Army Nursing Service, of Rydalmere, NSW, in uniform. SN Strom enlisted on 12 April 1917 as a staff nurse and embarked from Melbourne aboard RMS Mooltan on 12 June 1917. She went on to serve in British hospitals in Salonika. She returned to Australia in 1919.
Studio portrait of Staff Nurse
(SN) Elsie Rose Grant, Australian Army Nursing Service. SN Grant
enlisted on 12 August 1915 and returned to Australia on 11 March 1918.
She served in Egypt, France and England with the Australian Army Nursing
Service
Arrival of first detachment of Sisters on Lemnos Island. They marched to the hospital headed by a piper. [AW Savage, photo album, PXE 698, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales].
The 3rd Australian General Hospital 7th Aug 1915 - wearing the 1914 outdoor dress
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