Nurses cautious of new scheme
The introduction of doctors’ assistants, unless they were nurses, was strongly opposed by the national president of the New Zealand Nurses Association (Mrs Margaret Bazley) at the opening of the annual conference of the association in Christchurch last evening.
Mrs Bazley emphasised that the N.Z.N.A. supported the Government’s proposal [for practice nurses but resisted the idea that the nurses should become the “assistants of the doctors’ assistants.”
Under such a scheme, nurses would be "essentially demoted” in the practice of their profession, she said.
Mrs Bazley said the “obvious answer” to the shortage of doctors was to train nurses to share doctors’ wofk.
“In short, the proposition is that the practice nurse will take over some of the duties traditionally performed by doctors,” she ■ said “We believe that l nurses now practising or training can, with further instruction, meet this challenge with confidence and competence,”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33512, 18 April 1974, Page 12
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