HOSPITAL NURSES.
CHARGES OF OVER-WORK.
BOARD. STILL INVESTIGATING
licccnt complaints concerning (ho working conditions of tlio nurses at the Auckland Hospital are still being investigated by the board. A special meeting lias already been held at the hospital, when the medical and lady superintendents submitted reports to members in reply to charges of overwork among the nurses and their consequent inability to give propei attention to patients. A confidential report from the lady superintendent was handed to each member at a meeting of the board yosterday, and this will be considered at another special meeting to be held ne.xt Tuesday evening. The chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, stated that 12 new ward-maids had been engaged for domestic work. These women were sleeping out, and were proving of considerable assistance lo the nurses in relieving them of domestic duties in the wards. The numbers absent through sickness had .'dsn decreased, and conditions generally were becoming normal Again.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20309, 17 July 1929, Page 12
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