NURSING AT HOME.
A great problem for the coming months will b© how to find adequate positions for the highly skilled and responsible women who have, been anting as matrons of war hospitals, states a writer in an English exchange. . Obviously there will not be many matrons’ posts for them to fill, and it is as obvious that they cannot be expected to take subordinate staff appointments. The hope is that in making the many important appointments which will <oe necessary under an extended health scheme the authorities will give preference to these women, who deserve, the very best that the profession has to offer them, and that there will not b© a tendency to appoint in their stead women of less experience and perhaps ot less capacity who happen to be ori the spot and in close touch with the people responsible for the appointments. It is also to be hoped that they will be adequately paid. _ One public authority—which certainly engages its nurses very young—is complaining loudly that it requires nurses. At the same time it pays its assistant matrons only £SO or £57 a year and its sifters £35-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12688, 9 July 1919, Page 7
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