Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses.

Date:
1947
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Credit: Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GREAT BRITAIN No. of Course 1 Organised by the Royal College of Nursing, which grants a Certificate on completion. The syllabus is set and Diploma granted by the Universities of London, Leeds and Birmingham. ‘The course is part-time. The syllabus is set and Diploma granted by the Universities of London, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh and University College, Hull. Organised in fourteen institutions in different parts of the country. The examination is held by the Royal Sanitary Institute. The combined course is organised by institutions training Health Visitors, and the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing. Organised by the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing, The Ranyard Nurses and others. Organised by the College of Midwives. ‘The course is part-time. Organised by the Royal College of Nursing and by Birmingham University in conjunction with Birmingham Accident Hospital. 9 Organised by the Royal College of Nursing, King’s College, Edinburgh School of Dietetics and elsewhere. The course is part-time. 10 and 11 Organised by the Royal College of Nursing. ‘The course is part-time. a a -& oscil Appendix LX Supervision of Nurses’ Health 1. Supervision of the personal health of nurses, both trained and during training, is a subject to which considerable attention has lately been directed, and rightly so, in view of the absence of any co-ordinated measures laid down and despite the fact that in some institutions arrangements are admirable. 2. The Lancet and other earlier reports do not refer to this as a direct problem, but the Athlone Committee did draw attention to the great importance of routine medical examination which, they stated, was by no means universal either on admission to a training school or during training. They commended the practice of giving a thorough medical examination, including X-ray, not only before acceptance but on arrival at the training school; six months after entry ; again before the State examination, and when appointed to the trained nursing staff. They concluded :—‘‘ Breakdowns in health are thereby avoided and treatment secured at an early stage in tuberculosis and other conditions. Such a practice we regard as admirable in every way and we hope it may be found possible to adopt it as a routine in British hospital practice.” 3. The growing realisation that the health of the nurse herself was being treated too complacently was heavily underlined by the increasing difficulty experienced in staffing tuberculosis wards. This difficulty has approached a climax in the last few years and has focused attention on the whole subject, which has been usefully epitomised in a Memorandum on “ Supervision of the Nurses’ Health ” published by King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London in 1943. 4, In the U.S.A. the same question is now undergoing careful investigation by the United States Public Health Service. Wide diversity in the standards of 102