NURSES’ WORK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26918, 2 November 1948, Page 6

NURSES’ WORK

FORTY-HOUR WEEK INTRODUCTION IN AUCKLAND HOSPITALS P.A. AUCKLAND. Nov. 1. A 40-hour five-day week will be introduced this month by the Auckland Hospital Board for all sisters and staff nurses at the board’s institutions. This was decided at a meeting of the board to-night when the recommendations of the Hospitals Committee were adopted. It was also decided that until new hours were possible for all sections of the trained staff, the theatre and clinic staffs should work when necessary eight hours a day for five days and four hours on the sixth day, and be paid the maximum overtime allowance of 10 per cent. The new hospital employment regulations made it necessary to revise the trained staff's hours of duty, reported the matron-in-chief, Miss W. Delugar. She had called a meeting of the matrons of the four ma’jor hospitals together with two sisters from each hospital to discuss the proposals. The matrons could see no reasons why the new hours should not work satisfactorily. „ , On the suggestion of Dr Earl Carlson, the world authority on cerebral palsy, who visited the Dominion earlier this year, the matron of the Wilson Home for Crippled Children, Miss T L. Faulconbridge, has been selected to visit institutions in the United States, Great Britain and Australia next year to study modern methods in the treatment of spastic and other prippled children.