NURSE’S DISMISSAL
FURTHER CONSIDERATION. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, |s’ov. 20. The case of Nurse E. A. Blackie, who was dismissed from the hospital staff by a special committee appointed by the Auckland Hospital Board for sending a letter to a prisoner at Mount Eden gaol who had been a patient, and in which was an indiscreet reference to tire lady superintendent, was again considered by the board to-day. After a sombwhat heated discussion, lasting an hour, it was decided that the nurse should appear before the board at a special meeting next Monday so that the board might hear what she had to say in her defence. In a letter to the board the nurse said : “I think that to have my character and my career destroyed and to be dismissed at ,a moment’s notice is too severe a punishment for what I have done.”
Mr M. Laing. a member of the board, said that he did not think it was the board’s business to whom the girl wrote as long as she did her. work. In his opinion she should only have been -punished for being out late. The chairman (Mr W. Wallace) said that all the nurses were in the habit of coming in late. . Discipline must bo maintained. Miss Blackie said in her letter that the matron was ‘.‘going soft.”
I A member: Perhaps she meant softhearted (laughter). | The chairman added that the nurses were actually getting in through the maids’ quarters and climbing oyer their beds. If they allowed this, it would be the end of discipline. Regarding tho statement of Miss Blackie that „shc had been dismissed without her the chairman said that these had not been collected by her and were waiting for her. i Tho resolution to hear the nurse was then carried.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 304, 21 November 1928, Page 4
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