MALE NURSES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18409, 16 June 1925, Page 11

MALE NURSES.

iROPOSED REFORM. kS' UNPLEASANT DUTIES. - (SPECIAL TO "TUB PRESS.") -, AUCKLAND,'June 15. Id young girls in training a? neral hospitals bo required'to rid clean up drunken, verminous ju"? "Should tliey, b-fprilowed* : to liything to do with lyases of.detycmehs, .• or- wim &al6'';patients ig from Venereal; u questions sire raised in an in the "Herald," which re--1 'Nowadays'tliero are many optties for women taf education and leut to make careers for themm. professions ,very much better md presenting much easier con- , than that of ntrsing. With* ny more attractive avenues of went open to them, can girls of it typo be expected to offer their s to the profession Avhich retkem to perform as part of their g that. are revolting to woman-of delicacy and refine,t -'The:only .alterlmtive to the t' conditions is the .appointment ,f nursgs,. whose duty it would ittend.to all such caseß as those ned in the opening paragraph, ie point suggests itself, why ; ; no,t v the Auckland , Hospital 'become the pioneers in tho intion .of-male nurses- at the genJspitalf'?., j was ,brought -to the otifof,. nurses and medical men xporieneo'of, actual conditions at wkland Hospital. As might be bd"; there was a considerable difs. of opinion on tho part of those ewed" with regard to the propospyation. . ••Acting Superintendent of the fll *(Dr. Ludbrook) said he could for any such addition > :?staff. There were no male ton-the permanent staffs of any 'big general hospitals, in London, _ u jKflall tho V.T>. hospitals and the pSfSldepartments of the English inJ||pies were staffed solely by men. §f||arply in contrast were the opin!?S|pxpressed by the* Matron of the ggsptyal, who received her training in lipWKl, and also had extensive exjfnpnce. in Continental hospitals dur-

I hospital I have been in," aid, "such cases as those menl'would be attended id by order; >r warders, who are also detailed spare mate patients for abdominal tions. I personally have . neyef $W asked to perform such duties, Jlwrasider that any nurso should Wale nurses would bo useful in ways in New Zealand hospitals, mlarly in mental eases, which are ,the most difficult and disagreeto .deal- with." !ulv illuminating were remarks other nurss-, whoso training days till near enough to be very dis-

Ihody knows what the girls have lure>in the early vcars of their Jg," she said. "I think my experience was in a ward to dehnum'tremens cells were at--1 I sometimes > acame off, duty j morning, absolutely worn out, ling in every limb after a night ■»■> violent case. I hare been l'<and even bitten while trying to raving madmen drawn to their ; AH such cases should he handled Nnl piominent Auckland doctors 'scd themselves as entirely in : * of tho appointment of- male i..One of them said: "The fool- « male patients should also he frcd It is just-as hard for a if nice feelings to hare to depend upon a girl as it is for ihe girl \i mid I am quite sure that in a cases men would infinitely., preijno carorl far by ono of their own Jt tho job continues to ho made pleasant as it often is now, I am , j we shall lose some of tho best tejto tho nursing profession."

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