TREATMENT OF NURSE
Punitive Action Denied "The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. The Director of the Nursing Division of the Department of Health (Miss F J Cameron) has denied that the Nurses’ and Midwives' Board would take punitive action against a nurse who became pregnant while in training. She was replying to concern expressed on this point at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board. The object oi the Nurses’ and Midwives’ Board, said Miss Cameron, was not to punish but to assist in the rehabilitation of a girl who found herself in such a position "We give every girl a chance to complete her training once she has started.” said Miss Cameron. “But we ask her. for her own benefit, to do six months as a nursing aid in a private hospital of her own choice. The idea is to allow her to settle down mentally and physically from what is an » undoubted emotional strain:-. "After We get a report from the matron she is allowed to train wherever she wishes By the time she cames back every th tiig is past " Mus Cameron said the oqerfi was concerned with Th°^ nK mA* s Profession. Therefore, H had to reserve conditions ng Dad been interruptea?
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29702, 21 December 1961, Page 14
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