POST-WAR LIVING

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 270, 10 August 1943, Page 3

POST-WAR LIVING

Nurses’ Part In Problem Of Reconstruction Nurses, because of their calling, and because of their citizenship, had a double interest in the schemes for p°st-war reconstruction, stated the “New Zealand Nursing Journal in a recent editorial. Now. more than ever before, it was acknowledged that good health-was the first and most important, asset of any nation. Without good health, progress in other directions must necessarily be slow and sporadic. The health of the community was'the concern of the nursing profession aud the plans for post-war living which had more directly to do with health were likewise the concern of all nurses. In all countries nurses associations had exercised a marked influence on the duality of the nursing services; this influence would increase as nurses became more fully aware ot the benefits to be derived through collective effort and it was by this means that they could now make a, contribution to post-war }" e -, A start in this direction had already been made in England by the Itoyal College of Nursing, which set a 4l reconstruction committee in 1941 under the chairmanship of Lord Hordei. Many of the problems ot nurses in England, however, had never been the P iobl of New Zealand nurses, but nurses here should also aim at making a contractive contribution to their own particular prob _ IC T glance at the history of nursing pro”ress in the Dominion would show how singularly fortunate nurses had been in the organization of their profession The time bad arrived when ail should b. fully awake to their civie-aud responsibilities and preparations should be made to meet the future. 1 here were many questions meriting careful con sideration ami by submitting deliberations on those to a representatne body, individual nurses could help nmteually to meet post-war reconstruction in New Zea land. In this connexion it was bug gested that it was not too early t° “"ke preparations for the conference of next year.