We save Nurses

University Nurses' Group

If you read this and you are a nurse on campus we (Victoria University Nurses' Group) are thrilled to bits. Suspecting that there are tens of hundreds of nurses on campus but not quite knowing how to reach them, to share with them the excitement generated by current changes in the health structure, we are posed with a problem. In a sense nurses taking nursing studies papers are a captive group and most are already members but they represent a small fraction of all nurses on campus. Standing on soap boxes at strategic points or approaching every X number of students are nurse seeking activities worth a try; but hoarseness and general ostracism might arise from the former and frustrated chagrin from the latter, making this "note in the campus magazine" approach a more effective one.

A lot of things are happening in the nursing world today and it is up to us to pave the way of change. University education for nurses has become a necessity and has all sorts of implications in our social and work spheres. You're allowed to take that hat off or put it away but the situation still confronts you when you put it on again. We are encountering misinformed opposition to change all around and the Vic Nurses' Group function as a source of information and support, is invaluable. It also has the three formal objectives of commenting on public issues pertinent to nursing and health, publicising university nursing courses (more about the proposed Bachelor of Nursing later) and sharing our knowledge and ideas and those of other health related areas on camput.

The next meeting is 1930 hours, Monday, May 4 in the Coffee Room of the Students' Association Building. University Nurses Group is similar to the Vic Nurses' Group, but on a regional and national level. UNG is planning a study day in May for all interested. Watch Salient and strategic noticeboards for the date. A dose may just save your life.

Queries to Box 9, Stud. Assn. Building.