Nursing Charges.
Dear Sir, —Saturday’s 44 Star " prints letter from 14 Hard Up." The writer coi plains about having to pay for an ext day in hospital. The fee, £2 per wee would hardly pay for ordinary board in « apartment house (say 25s per week), wi the services of a nurse extra (15s). At it’s a pretty poor nurse that is not won some little more than that. In a boardin house a week’s notice is usually given t gentlefolk. If a patient cavils about pa ing a fraction more for an extra day, i I can say is “ God save us." Why, if oi employed a qualified nurse at home . per week, and found, it would not gi’ anything like adequate remuneration. T! is particularly so when some patients wa a qualified and certificated nurse to a as general slavey, and work about 26 hou a day. That querulous. 44 Are you thei Nurse . . How nurses stand it I real don’t know. It’s just a very moot questic if a Magistrate would not allow an ext week to be charged for. The best is dot this is said with all sincerity—for sic people in both private and also public i stitutions. When recovery takes place is just one long growl.—l am, etc., CNOSCO.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20567, 19 March 1935, Page 6
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