THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service.” MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1944. NEED FOR NURSES

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THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service.” MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1944. NEED FOR NURSES

It may be hoped that the three weeks’ Dominion-wide recruiting campaign for the nursing profession, commencing to-day, will have satisfactory results. The shortage of nurses has become very serious with the introduction of free hospital treatment and the resulting great expansion of the hospital services. War conditions have made this shortage even more acute. The New Zealand nursing organisation has been brought to a very high degree of efficiency under the present director, Miss Lambie, but it is essential that it should be fully staffed if. this standard is to be maintained. Nursing is a noble calling. It brings into play those fine humanitarian qualities that make women the natural and most successful- ministers to the comfort of the afflicted. The appeal now to be launched is an appeal to those qualities for enlistment in the service of humanity. If those to whom it is addressed look at it in this light the response should be satisfactory. Such a response as will ensure adequate staffing will also, moreover, ensure working conditions that will make hospital nursing less onerous than at present under the existing shortage.