Nurses’ pay
Sir, —Mr Bassett keeps repeating assertions that the nurses’ pay rise is straining the health services and causing patient care to suffer. Under new pay scales a first-year constable gets up to $32,000 a year, yet does not require the educational qualifications intending nurses do, nor do the police study for three years without pay. Both groups work
with the public, require judgment and work under stress, yet the . police are granted pay increases’ ll which equate those awarded by yt the Higher Salaries Commission to Cabinet Ministers, while the’ 1 - nurses’ increases are micro- H scopic by comparison. If, as'Mrr:?l Bassett suggests/hospital boards are compromising nursing care by employing inferior staff, he should take over their functions and use professionals instead of local amateurs for administration , and cease his attempts to destroy nursing morale by making niirses feel guilty for seeking? a wage tg commensurate with their contributton to society. — Yours, etc., M. A. MCGOWAN. : * January 30, 1986.
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Press, 1 February 1986, Page 18
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