APPEAL FOR NURSES

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 20, 18 October 1944, Page 3

APPEAL FOR NURSES

Wellington Hospital Campaign

With a. series of parSUes, demonstrations and lunch-hour gatherings organized by the sisters and nurses at the hospital, by mem’bers of the Jlegistered. Nurses’ Association and other helpers, including the Repertory Society, Im Hat Club and Trentham Band, a campaign has been launched by the Wellington Hospital Board for the recruiting ot young women urgently needed to train as nurses. The campaign will continue till October 27. . , . . , • Substantial numbers of inquiries have already been made by prospective trainees since the opening day,’ and application forms are being issued. Throughout the city there arc special shop displays shelving nurses actually going through children’s Yvard routine, demonstrations of theatre technique, the work of the night staff in a hospital ward a classroom of the nurses’ tutorial -block, and the uniforms worn 'by the different grades of nurses during and after training. The chairman of the hospital board, Mr. 11. If. Toogood, in opening the campaign, said 230 more nurses, including student nurses aud VAJD.'s, were wanted at once in the most noble of callings. There was at .present insufficient staffing for the opening of the remainder of the BlfEbed block, which was uow almost complete. The record of training successes at the Wellington Hospital, .he said, was as high as that, of any hospital in New Zealand. Nurses who. qualified after three years’, training at Wellington were recognized in hospital and nursing services the world over. . ' A lunch-hour pageant will be held at Y 7 ietory Corner today..