DIRECTING NURSES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1943, Page 5

DIRECTING NURSES

NOW UNDER MANPOWER

PUBLIC HOSPITALS' NEEDS

Nurses are now liable to be directed by manpower officers into the Civil Nursing Reserve, which will provide temporary staff for the public ho.spitals most in need of assistance'. Advice to this effect lias been received by the Hawera Hospital Board, from the DirectorGeneral of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt. Instructions Have been issued to manpower officers that all nurses who were completing any form of nursing training and were about to leave their training schools would be allowed one month in which to find a position for themselves in either a public or a private hospital, or in the service of the Health Department or in the Plunket nursing service. Otherwise employment would be found for them. Nurses could not be directed into private hospitals, because there was no standard salary scale or superannuation, Dr. Watt said. To check as far as possible any leakage of nurses, particularly from private hospitals, district nursing bureaus and regional nursing officers will report to the manpower officer any case of a nurse not regularly practising her profession, and the matter would be investigated.