TREATMENT OF NURSE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 2

TREATMENT OF NURSE

Discussion Of Case Soon "The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, February 9. A nurse, whom the Auckland Hospital Board thinks is being unduly punished because she became pregnant during training, will be the subject of a meeting between the board and the registrar of the Nurses and Midwives’ Board on February 23.

The nurse wanted to resume training to rehabilitate herself but the Nurses and Midwives’ Board ruled that she would have to do six months’ probation as a nurse aid and suffer a consequent six-month loss of training. The hospital board at its December meeting expressed concern at the punitive measures and the implications of the case.

In the board’s opinion, any pupil nurse who wanted to re-enter nursing after an absence should be permitted to do so on conditions recommended by the appropriate local hospital administration.