MENTAL NURSING
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—The fact that twelve girls ap- . pealed out of thirteen called up for mental hospital nursing suggests that the Government's policy of coercion in this matter is wrong. Mental nursing is the noblest of all the professions, and it appears to be the Cinderella. New Zealand needs a great campaign of mental cure, and for this we require some thousands of our finest women for nursing under Government service both in the institutions and in the patients' homes, where, in many cases of nervous breakdown, cure can best be effected. The reluctance of women to enter the service is obviously due in great part to lack of knowledge of what it involves and dread of what they imagine. I suggest, that for every 100 women required 1000 should be called up for one or two weeks' probation to become familiar with the conditions. The required 100 would then probably volunteer. There is a great career in New Zealand for nurses skilled in modern mental care.—l am, etc., ARTHUR SAINSBURY. Otahuhu.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 4
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