AMBULANCE NURSES.
Sir, —I was sorry to read the letter of "Sympathy" in the Herald with reference to an accident to a patient, who fell when being put into an ambulance because there was no nurse to help the driver. When application is made tor a St. John ambulance, it is an invariable rule to inquire if the transport officer will require to take anyone to help him. If there is no nurse or a friend of the patient who can assist, arrangements are made to take a trained ambulance man or a trained nurse. If the patient is heavy, it is preferable .to have one of the members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, as they are stronger than a nurse and are specially trained in stretcher work and the lifting and carrying of patients. In no case is a patient left without attendance so that there is no chance of his or her falling. This being the case, I am quite certain that the accident could not have happened in a St. John Ambulance. William Rattray, Honorary Secretary of Auckland Centre.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19951, 21 May 1928, Page 12
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