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.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2
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251VOLUNTARY AIDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 2
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