‘Doctors should not select nurses’
Doctors should not be on selection committees for senior nursing positions, according to the Nurses Society of New Zealand. The society’s national director, Mr David Wills, said that doctors were sometimes represented on hospital appointments selection committees for positions such as charge nurse and senior. “This is professionally undesirable, even though doctors are always in the minority on such committees,” Mr Wills said. This medical engagement in some nursing appointments might be acceptable if nurses were on selection committees for medical appointments, he said. “However, there is no sign of this happening, and so the society is making representations to hospital boards to ensure that there is ho future medical vote in nursing appointments,” Mr Wills said.
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Press, 26 November 1982, Page 5
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