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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21211, 5 December 1938, Page 8

“It has been realised for a long timauZ that it is hardly fair to expect to do a full day’s ward duty and then ; study or attend lectures,'! said the ? superintendent of the Wellington Public Hospital, Dr A. R. Thorne, referring to a recent suggesticn from Southland i,that the reason why so many nurses broke down in health was that they" 3j had to study as well as work in the' wards. The Wellington Board, Dr i Thorne said, had already decided that the block system would be Introduced > when a sufficient number of nurses , was available. Under this system, nurses in training did not attend lee l T tures throughout the year concurrently : with their ward work. Instead* sections of the year were devoted entirely to intensive study and other sections t" practical work in the wards. Dr Thome said that with the block system pl„.training, shorter hours and bettor ae-' commodation and recreational facil--i< ities at the nurses’ home, an - ment in the general standard of nurses’ health could be expected. la the meantime, the amount re sickness A among nurses in Wellington was n» -J greater than the average in other hosj pitals where similar condition* prevailed.