Nursing Conditions
The conditions under which student nurses lived to-day were compared with those prevailing when she was a student nurse in the Christchurch Public Hospital, by Mrs F. W. Curtis, a member of the Ashburton Hospital Board, at a nurse’s graduation ceremony at the Ashburton hospital. Mrs Curtis said that a student nurse in those days worked for the first three months without pay, thereafter receiving £1 a month. “I don’t mind telling you that the first thing we girls who lived away from Christchurch did when we collected our pay was to go straight to tearooms and have a decent feed,” she said. This could not happen to-day,” as every hospital had dietitians who saw that the nurses received good and adequate food. The parents of student nurses in those days had to supply their daughters with aprons, stockings and even flannelette bodices, Mrs Cu'/’s added.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6978, 15 October 1948, Page 7
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148Nursing Conditions Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6978, 15 October 1948, Page 7
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