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American Red Cross Nursing Service
American Red Cross
Washington, D.C.
Dear Miss Beard:
Unit for the transfer from the American Red Cross jurisdiction to the Office of
young
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Since the first of September we have been preparing the Hawaii
Civilian Defense employment. Partially due to Dr. Arnold's statement when he
spoke to us on August 20th and partially due to health reasons, we are faced with
the problem of releasing approximately eleven. of the unit, either on October first
or some time shortly following. As Miss Peterson wrote to you on August 28th, Dr.
Arnold, in that meeting, stated that any of the nurses who felt that they were too
unhappy to remain with the unit would be promised a release and be replaced, if pos-
sible, from October first on. He stated that the O.C.D. had found that any nurse
who is unhappy and not adjusting well does not give good nursing service. Whether
it was wise at the time to state this promise to the nurses is rather difficult to
say. However the statement was made and as a result we have a few additional prob-
lems to meet in regards to replacing nurses.
On September 18th, Mr. Houghton, the National American Red Cross
representative, Dr. Arnold, and Mrs. Thelma Akana, Supervisor of Territorial Nurs-
ing Activities, met here at Secred Hearts Hospital, with Miss Clark and myself to
discuss principally the problems of the nurses who did not desire, or could not on
account of physical ailments, remain with the unit after October first. The follow-
ing problems were discussed, with the resulting conclusions:
Miss A. Louthan, who is already on her way back to the Mainland, and
from whom you may hear even before this letter reaches you, was released because she
had apparently been very unhappy every since her arrival. She complained constantly
about the work and stated that she had never before been asked to do many of the
nursing procedures which we have to do here. She stated that she had always been ac-
customed to having plenty of subsidiary help around and she became mentally upset
and /consequently physically ill from having to do this type of mursing. She had been
off duty frequently from three to five or six day periods. Dr. S.E. Doolittle, her
attending physician, reported to me that he could find no basis for her physical com-
plaints and believed that her unhappiness about her work was the underlying cause.
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