HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 38, 14 February 1913, Page 4

HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

WHY DO NURSES LEAVE? The Hospital Committee met yesterday. Mr. J. Godber presided, and there were also present : Messrs. G. Nash, F. T. Moore, H, Freeman, J. Trevor, H. Baldwin, W. B. Gardener, and Eev. Van Staveren. Dr. D. G. Matheson was recommended by the committee to be appointed house surgeon ; Mias L. Fleming, assistant clerk at the hospital ; and Mr. C. M'Kirdy, junior 2 3rac ''ical engineer. Senior Nurse M. Gorman was promoted to charge nurse. Mr. I<\ T. Moore asked for a. return of the number of charge nurses joining the staff, and those resigning. There Were, he believed," too mdny resignations of ntifßes, and he thought something was •Wrong. The chairman said he believed there was nothing wrong. The nurses were resigning because, in bo many cases, they came to learn, and then they took up private nursing, which was more remunerative. Rev. Van Staveren said some of the nurses, of course, left to be married, and that was a matter over which the board had no control. Mr. Trevor saw no need for the return. The board finally decided on a show of hands to furnish the return asked for. The committee recommended that the tenders of Messrs. J. Jackson and Co. for painting the maternity ward, and Messrs. Scoullar and Co., be accepted foi supply of linoleum maternity- ward and outpatients' block ; that, on completion of the maternity ward the secretary advertise for a materhity sister, and an honorary obstetrician ; and that the House steward arrange for appointing a stoker vice J. Oliver resigned. Sergt. -Major Sandborn' was granted permission to enter the hospital for two weeks' training in the male ward.