A reference regarding Agnes McLean's staff nurse competency. Often nurses were required to undertake instruction in invalid cookery at Emily McPherson College or at Swinburne Technical School and the Nurses Board vigorously enforced this rule in 1934. A reference such as this was probably used for this and other nursing studies or employment. Ref page 64 A Professions Pathway by Mary Sheehan.agnes mclean, st vincent's hospital melbourne, mother rectress gertrude healy., invalid cookery

The first page of the folder contains the elaborate St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne Training School emblem. The second page certifies that Miss Lucy M. Condon has completed and passed the three-year course of training and examination in Medical, Surgical, Ophthalmic and Gynaecological Nursing and is now a fully qualified Trained Nurse. It is signed by F.J. Colahan MD.MS, Honorary Lecturer and Mother Rectress, Mary Gertrude Healy.lucy m. condon, st vincent's hospital nurse training., mother mary gertrude healy, f.j colahan md.ms

The first page of the folder contains the elaborate St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne Training School emblem containing the crest "Caritas Christi Urget Nos" in the middle. The second page certifies that Kathleen P. Wheeler has passed the final examination of the conjoint board of examiners of the Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association. It states that Kathleen is fully registered as a Trained Nurse following a three-year course in Medical, Surgical, Opthalmic and Gynaecological Nursing. It is dated June 1928 and is signed Edward Prendergast MBBS, Honorary Lecturer and Mary Gertrude Healy, Mother Rectress.st vincent's hospital melbourne, kathleen p. wheeler, nurse training