NURSES’ HOURS
PROBLEM IN INVERCARGILL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, July 2. The possibility of three maternity homes, in Invercargill closing in September because of the new Private Hospitals (hours of work) Regulations was mentioned by Invercargill doctors and nurses when inquiries were made. The provision of other accommodation for maternity cases would, it was stated, become an extremely difficult problem. The effect of the regulation reducing the weekly hours of work of nursing staffs to 48, inclusive of meal times, is that staffs will have to be increased, but as this is declared to be impossible because of the acute shortage of nurses and probationers, the maternity homes will be forced to close down. It was emphasised by one nurse that their inability to carry on would be due not so much to increased costs, which could be passed on, as to the impossibility of securing additional nurses. The three Invercargill homes deal with 350 patients a year between them. If these 350 cases now treated in private maternity hospitals are deprived of that accommodation a very difficult situation will be created.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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