NURSES’ HARD LOT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3491, 20 May 1920, Page 5

NURSES’ HARD LOT.

KILLED WLCPH ()'\"ERWORK

CHRISTCHURCH, May 19.

“Ixfy motto is, if you l1:1\'3 1.. good nurse do not kill her. The hospitals‘ kill their nurses; knock .tlleca to pieces! They do notdlook af-ter them.- They do_ notelookilafter their nurses in the; 'Chl‘istehurch hospifal.” ' Briefly, that was the indictnienfi levelled by Nurse Maude agafiisl; the‘ present. conditions of employment of hospital nurses in the course of a talk: to members of the Chrisiehureh Coun-2 oil of Churches last evening. Nurse Maude, in explaining the working 013 the District. Nursing Associzmion, St:lt~4 ed that the workers were allowed. one’ day off per week for rest. That was beea.use_she maintained that having found good nurse they should not‘ kill her." The hospitals killed their. nul's~es with overwork. It Was the same! inEngland where she had received her. training. The nurses were never loo‘k-t ed after. Members of hospital boards did not understand What. nurses had toi put up ‘with. . She wished tharc-some board niembers would spend a full day} in a ward. Then the nurses Woulcl have their day oif.

The Council of Churches, she added! {night do something one day in “s’ril~< ring up“ the North Canterbury Hospital 4'Bog.l'd in this matter. In England ‘she: ha};Vl«:nown of two nurses who spent .11 xx~éel;’s holiday in bed simply because, thef were done up. There should ‘B6. on”? day per week qnitevfree, in which.’ case the nurses would be able to give‘ ’bbftel' service, and would not feel cross anfl irritable with their patients.