Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

VOLUNTARY AIDS

APPEAL FOR MORE WORKERS. SHORTAGE OF HOSPITAL STAFF. At the present time hospitals throughout New Zealand are facing a serious position with regard to a shortage of staff, both nursing and domestic. All branches of the Red Cross Society have been asked to do all they can to train more nursing and domestic Voluntary Aids so that these aids may be called upon to assist when required in their own districts.

After passing the elementary home nursing examination, a voluntary aid may do her sixty hours’ hospital training, and she is then qualified to assist in the hospital wards at any time. A large number of voluntary aids from this district are serving overseas, in military and air force hospitals, and in the newly formed Civil Reserve, and this appeal for new trainees is made to fill the big gaps made in local detachments. Members of the domestic detachment undergo 40 hours’ training in the hospital kitchen, and are called on for service when shortage of permanent staff occurs. The Red Cross Society is most anxious to form a detachment of older women who could give a few hours’ daily service when required in this very important part of hospital service.

The New Zealand Voluntary Aid Council has approved of a dietary course for voluntary aids. It is hoped to organise this for the winter term, and it will cover all branches of invalid cookery. The course will be open to all Red Cross and St. John Voluntary Aids.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430510.2.10

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2

Word count
Tapeke kupu
251

VOLUNTARY AIDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2

VOLUNTARY AIDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert