Nurses’ creches requested
PA Wellington The Nurses’ Association has asked hospital boards to provide child-care facilities for nurses with dependent children. The deputy executive director of the association, Miss Marion Blackbourn, said that a recent Health Department report, “Women in the Workforce,” had shown the need for such a service. The report said that 58 per cent of all female nurses had someone they classified as a dependant. Of women between the ages of 30 and 39, 74 per cent had dependants and in the 40 to 49 age group
the figure rose jo 80 per cent. Most nurses were caring for children under the age of 18. Miss Blackbourn said hospitals would be better able to recruit and retain nurses if they provided child-care facilities. The report also showed that almost 37 per cent of nurses worked part-time in 1981, compared with 32 per cent in 1977. Miss Blackbourn said that many nurses worked parttime because they had dependants at home.
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