Sir,-It is obvious that the writer of the article in The Listener of May 26 was totally ignorant of the work done by Karitane nurses during and after their training. To say that Karitane nursing is one of the last things a girl should wish to become shows that the writer considers the health and wellbeing of little children to be of no importance whatever. For a girl who can-
not afford Karitane training, four years of general nursing would be very tedious if she were keen to look after babies only. In general hospitals the nurses are so busy that they cannot give the babies the careful, patient, handling that can be given in Karitane hospitals. The fact that premature babies born in general hospitals are transferred to Karitane as soon as possible proves this. That most girls take up Karitane training to "fill in time between schooldays and marriage" is untrue. Not one of the 26 Karitane trainees in Wellington ‘has taken the trainine for this
reason,-
HELEN M.
McKENZIE
(Wellington).
[The inadvertent dropping of a word in the last line of the first paragraph of our article confused the issue a little. The sentence we sent to the printer ended with these words: "But that is one of the last things such a girl should wish to become." The ‘such,’ unfortunately, was lost in transit.-Ed.] ‘
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 260, 16 June 1944, Page 2
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