NURSES AND SALARIES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 2

NURSES AND SALARIES

ENGLISH RECOMMENDATIONS.

Great changes are taking place with regard to the payment and conditions of the nursing, profession in Great Britain, and New Zealand, that considers itself well in the van of progress, would seem to be behind in these matters. “The Hospital" (an English nursing journal) publishes the following scale of minimum salaries recommended by the College of Nursing, and this scale has been sent to all institutions and other bodies employing nurses. For the matron in a hospital, with an average number of teds in daily occupation cvbove 500, a salary is recommended of -C5OO (annual increment .£25). In a hospital with 300 to 500 beds, her salary is recommended at £MO; 200-300 beds, .£350; 100 to 200 beds, £300; 50-100, £200; 25 to 50 beds, £2OO. For the assistant matron, in a hospital with 500 and over beds in. daily occupation, the salary is £l5O to £255, with annual increments of £l5; 300-500 beds, £l4O to £245 ; 200-300 teds, £l2O to £225; 100 to 200 beds, £lOO to £160; 50-100 beds, £B5 to £130; 25 to 50 beds, £B5 to £l3O. The house sister is paid (with annual increments of £10), from £l2O to £l5O, in a hospital of 500 beds and over; £llO to £l5O, £lOO to £l4O, etc., in ratio to the size of the institution; night superin. Undent (annual increment £10), £l2O to £125, in hospital of 500 and over beds; and the same for hospital with 300-500 and 200 to 300 beds; for 100 to 200 beds, to J6I4Q; for 50 to 100 beds, <£S5 to £125; and the same for 25 to 50 beds and under 25 beds. Ward sister (annual increment £5), £B5 to £l2O, in hospital of 500 or over beds; the same for one with 300 to 500, 200 to 300, and 100 to 200 teds; in one with 50 to 100 beds, £BO to £9O • tlie wme in one with 25 to 00, also one with under 25 beds. Staff nurses, £6O to £7O in all cases. In every ca« uniforms or monetary equivalent is provided. A superannuation scheme is now under consideration. A Drawingroom Meeting. Another drawingroom meeting was held for Mrs. Preston and Miss Coad, the two nominees of the Women’s National Council for election to the City Council, Mrs. H. E. Nicholls, Harbour View, being the hostess on this occasion. The howling gale that raged all day yesterday apparently was no deterrent, as quite a number of guests were present, and Mrs. Nicholls was assisted in , thwr .S ntel t^’ 1 ’ ment by her two daughters. Mrs- John Hannah and Miss Phyllis Nicholls. Tea was served in the diningroom, and afteiwands everyone betook thmaelves into the drawingroom, where brief were given by Mrs. Preston and Miss Coad on lines similar to those of their mSvioua mooting. The bvo speakers wore accorded a very heart}' vote _of tlianks, al«o Mrs. Nicholls for having aiven the use of her rooms and for her hospitality, and Mrs.- Coleridge for presiding at the meeting.

Miss Andrew, who has been staying with Mrs. Morrison, Lansdowne, Masterton. left early this week on her return to Nelson.

Mr and Mrs. Norman Gurr are leaving Dannevirke to take up their residence in the Auckland district.