SHORTAGE OF NURSES
POSITION IN WELLINGTON
MANY ON SK'K LEAVE
Of the 378 nurses at the Wellington Public Hospital, 33 are on sick leave. There is also, as usual, a number on anual holiday With a record number of patients—Bso on Friday—there i--. -.a relative shortage in the nursing stall.
To ensure that patients shall not be under-nursed the board has authorised the superintendent, Dr. A. R. Thorne, to engage trained nurses from day to day, as necessary. At present three outside nurses are so engaged. About one-third of the nurses away ill are suffering from influenza and three or tour from measles.
Dr. Thorne said that over-crowding in the nurses' home and in the hospital probably had some bearing on the incidence of illness. An endeavour was being made to ameliorate the housing problem by letting as many nurses as possible live out.
Dr. Thorne added that, even as things stood, the nursing strength in relation to the patients was better than it was 12 months ago.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 7
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