§ 16-81. Nurses training schools; intern and training facilities.

(a)

The board of commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered at any time in its discretion to establish and maintain, in connection with such hospital and as a part thereof, a training school for nurses, and upon completion of a prescribed course of training, shall give to such nurses, who have satisfactorily completed the said course, a diploma; said board of commissioners is authorized and empowered to set up all rules and regulations necessary for the operation of a nurses training school and to make all necessary expenditures in connection therewith.

(b)

The board of commissioners is further authorized and empowered to establish and maintain such clinics, medical training and medical research programs in connection with the operation of district hospitals, including the training of interns and resident physicians, as the board of commissioners, in their discretion, might determine to be necessary or beneficial to the professional services in the district hospitals.

(Sp. Acts 1951, Ch. 27438, § 7; Sp. Acts, Ch. 63-1192, § 2)