INIMICAL TO ADMINISTRATION

Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 10

INIMICAL TO ADMINISTRATION

NURSES IGNORED MATRON WROTE DIRECT T« BGARO [Per United Press Association.] ■ _ NAPIER, June 24. The opinion. that nurses, in writing to the secretary of the Hawke’s BayHospital Board regarding the betterment of their conditions, had adopted a course entirely opposed to recognised practice was expressed by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., chairman of the Royal Commission inquiring into the Hospital Board affairs, at the opening of the sitting this morning. “ I wish to remove a misunderstanding that may be present in the minds of even counsel,” said Mr Mosley. “It may be that the misunderstanding is present in the minds of the nurses, and I want to remove it. It is a matter of the gravest importance to nurses themselves that they should' have taken the •matron, into their confidence after exhausting all other avenues and before adopting the extreme course of writing to the Hospital Board' and forwarding their letter to the Health Department.

“We understand that they have erred in ignorance, and, also, we sympathise with many.of their reasonable requests, and I am.sure the board did likewise; but we consider that the method adopted would, in our opinion, destroy the.internal administration of any hospital if it were adopted.”