CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL
Sir,-It would appear that after 21 years of nursing I am greatly mistaken in my opinion. I have no special pediatric training, but I have my psychiatric certificate, and I thought that I detected a note of hysteria in some of the remarks addressed to the doctor in the panel that was broadcast from 3YA. One point: by "settled," I mean restful. This remark, "giving no further trouble to the nursing staff," conveys the idea that your correspondent has a grudge against nurses, perhaps thinks that they are a lazy clan. I can assure her that a great percentage of them enjoy duties in the children’s wards. I am aware of the fact that parents do give hypodermic injections to their children. I have also nursed young children admitted with their mothers (this was in 1951) to a private hospital in Christchurch. In some instances this proved an asset, with good co-operation between mothers and staff; but some mothers were so over-anxious that their presence was of doubtful value. Some mothers are not good for their own chil-dren-believe me! I am very interested in this subject, as it affects New Zealand nurses, and New Zealand hospitals; but I can sense that if-any opposition
is put forward it is immediately downed by a list of things done at Great Ormond Street, or what Dr. So-and-So says. Surely New Zealand can deal with the
situation.
J. C. RALPH
SMITH
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 5
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