NURSING AS A CAREER
Sir-Now that nursing as a career has been fully explained in Your pages, could you allow me a small space to clear up what is probably a misconception on the part of "Registered Nurse"? The talk she referred to was given to fifth and sixth standard girls and not to adults. Naturally, one would not worry young children with a large amount of detail about examinations. If they want it when they are older, the girls can get this information in a few minutes. The idea of the talk was merely to try and make the listeners interested enough in nursing to include it in the list of careers they may consider when they leave schoal. Any information given was from ‘the material supplied to us by the Health Department. In these talks, we try to answer questions that have been asked us by girls. From time to time, girls say they want to be stewardesses, and ask how they can fill in the years after they leave school, until they are old enough to go to sea. As they are generally reliable, practical girls, I have suggested nursing as one of the many ways by which girls may prepare for such a career. I know that many of these youthful ambitions may never be realised. However, by giving advice of this kind, it can be safely said we are suggesting a training which would make them most useful citizens Vocational Guidance Officer (Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Unnumbered Page
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248NURSING AS A CAREER New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Unnumbered Page
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