NURSING STAFF TOO FORMAL
NORTH CANTERBURY HOSPITALS.
REFRESHER COURSE SUGGESTED.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, July 25.
The conclusion that many country hospitals in the North Canterbury Hospital Board’s district are not as great a success as they might be because the nursing staffs are too formal has been reached by Dr. W. Fox, medical superintendent of the Christchurch hospital, after a tour of inspection.
Reporting to the hospital board today, he said the staffs lacked knowledge of the mentality of a sick person and lacked a pleasing personality. “In fact if the staffs had to earn a living for themselves they would either have to alter their attitude or starve,” he said. Dr. Fox recommended that the matrons of the larger country hospitals be brought into the base hospital for a refresher course to prevent staleness and getting into a “dug-in” attitude. The report was adopted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1934, Page 7
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