Nurse Preferred Training At Whangarei

Northern Advocate, 29 September 1943, Page 3

Nurse Preferred Training At Whangarei

(Special) AUCKLAND, This Day. The question whether a nursing aid should be allowed to choose the hospital at which she would receive her training as a nurse came before the Auckland Manpower (Industrial) Committee at Auckland. The appellant was Miss F. I. Jones, a nurse attendant, who wished to start training as a pupil nurse at the Whangarei Hospital, but who had been refused permission to leave the Green Lane Hospital. v _ Mr. R. Lydford, the manpower officer s representative, said that since the manpower officer’s decision had been given a letter had been received from Miss Lambie, the director of the nursing division of the Department of Health. She said that it had been a definite policy of the department that girls should he permitted to choose their own training school. Provided she gave reasonable notice it was felt that a girl should he allowed to leave the hospital where she/had been employed as an aid, to allow her to commence her training elsewhere. The appeal was allowed, on condition that appellant took up duties at the Whangarei Hospital. — *