Private Nursing in New Zealand
1929; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 29; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3410735
ISSN1538-7488
Autores Tópico(s)Global Health Workforce Issues
ResumoO NE of the most valued and useful branches of the nursing service is the branch of private nursing. It is a great factor in the life of our community, and could not be dispensed with easily. It fills a great need for the sick who have to be nursed in their own homes, or wherever they make their homes. Private nursing extends all over New Zealand, in the country as far as is required and in the city with its conveniences in the way of transport, telephones, and the services of doctors. The call and demand for private nursing is met by a large number of private nurses who are always ready and equipped to go off at a call wherever that may be. In the large towns, and also in some of the smaller ones, there are residential clubs for state registered nurses; in our two largest towns, Auckland and Wellington, these clubs are owned and run by the local Trained Nurses' Association, while in the other centres the clubs are privately owned by experienced nurses, and are run for the convenience of the medical practitioners and nurses in private practice. In all cases nurses are encouraged to belong to the Trained Nurses' Association, but in the case of those making use of the Association clubs, this is compulsory. To become a member of the Registered Nurses' Club a nurse must be recommended, and on coming into residence her name is placed on the list of nurses awaiting calls to cases. When the medical practitioner rings for a nurse, unless a special request is made for any particular nurse, the first on the list is sent to the case; but in the event of the nurse
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