Nurses And Medical Practice
Sir, —The criticism of the nurses* scheme by Mrs E. Holdgate, New Zealand president of the Registered Nurses’ Association, should bring all nurses up with a jolt and make them realise how far we have gone from the ideals of true nursing. Advance we must with the times; nurses must be educated to be of the greatest use to doctors in this technological and scientific age. But registered nurses have been so busy in the last 10 years advancing their own positions in salaries and education that the patient has been the least important item on the agenda. The Registered Nurses’ Association is concerned that it was not consulted in the planning stages. Does this not prove how far we have gone along our own path—that we are not in communication with the doctors? The doctors' scheme might at last achieve a long overdue practical plan to really tackle the nightmare of patient care in the community.—Yours, etc, (MRS) E. A. STONEHOUSE. July 7, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32343, 8 July 1970, Page 12
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