NURSES AND WAR
400 ON ACTIVE SERVICE "Tli ere is every reason for satisfaction with the way in which nurses throughout the Dominion have responded to the requirements of war" states the New Zealand Nursing Journal. "More than 400 nurses are on active service overseas, and the applications for enlistment continue to pour in daily. Four thousand nurses, retired or married, have- come forward to undertake emergency work and many have returner! to fulltime nursing*, "Kinergcncy and first-aid posts and hospitals are staffed b.y former nurses, who have volunteered jVuservice, regardless of the inconvenience . The training of hundreds oi voluntary nursing aids also has been undertaken as a contribution to tha war effort by registered nurses without whose co-operation the voluntary scheme could not have been pu* into effect. "The number of nurses who have sought employment in other spheres is very small, and; in most cases justified by health or domestic reasons/' 1
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 72, 1 July 1942, Page 6
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154NURSES AND WAR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 72, 1 July 1942, Page 6
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