VOLUNTARY AIDS WANTED

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24445, 20 December 1944, Page 3

VOLUNTARY AIDS WANTED

APPEAL BY MISS M. I. LAMBIE The need for more voluntary aids in the Civil Nursing Reserve was emphasised by Miss M. I. Lambie, Director of Nursing Services, in a statement to “The Press” yesterday. Miss Lambie said that more Jhan 350 voluntary aids had already joined the reserve and had given splendid service to public hospitals thloughout New Zealand. Many of these, however, had now been called up for overseas service, while others had married, and the ranks were severely depleted. With the opening of new hospitals in Wellington and Auckland and of several permanent health camps for children there was now urgent need for more aids in the reserve. “The Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John have been asked if 'they could supply these girls, and an appeal has gone out from these organisations for more recruits," said Miss Lambie. “In order to provide the necessary number of recruits girls of 17 years and upwards who belong to the lied Cross or Order of St. John and who have not yet qualified as voluntary aids may enrol as junior members of the reserve. These girls will be brought in to Auckland or Wellington Hospital at a stated time and will receive two weeks’ intensive instruction in home nursing’ from the tutor sister. “After this course they will be given ordinary ward duty—but will continue to take first-aid and hygiene lectures during the evening with their own organisations until they become qualified voluntary aids and are then considered mobile members of the reserve.”