Essentials for a health service
1946 1946 1940s 12 pages (ii) The delay in the raising of the school-leaving age has made the problem of "bridging the gap" much more difficult. Nevertheless, education authorities could do much more to help by organising courses of pre-nursing training in day and evening schools,...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party
1946
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1946
1940s
12 pages
(ii) The delay in the raising of the school-leaving age has made the problem of "bridging the gap" much more difficult. Nevertheless, education authorities could do much more to help by organising courses of pre-nursing training in day and evening schools, and by giving grants for further education of girls who are suitable and wish to become nurses. (iii) Drastic revision is needed in the methods and duration of nurses' training. The G.N.C. is obstructing the way to the National Health Service by its plan for the lengthening of nurses' training and by its insistence on excessive courses of theoretical lectures, when the need is for practical nurses who can make patients comfortable. If student nurses are relieved of domestic duties they can be trained in two years at hospital following the usually accepted preliminary training for Part I of the Preliminary State Examination, etc. (iv) In order to establish such a method of training it is essential that ward organisation in nurses' training schools be adapted (as suggested in the Horder Report) by increase of permanent staff, such as by the appointment of Charge Sisters to relieve the ward sister of her duties in order that she will be able to teach at the bedside. (v) Student nurses are grossly overworked, and the loss of 25 per cent of such students in the first year could be enormously reduced by regulation of their hours of work and by adequate care of their health. (vi) The block system of training is intrinsically unsound and should be replaced later by a more continuous system for combined practical and theoretical training. (vii) Girls who have worked as V.A.D.s and nursing auxiliaries for years are only allowed 6 months off the standard full training course if they wish to take up nursing. Though they would need organised training, this treatment is completely destructive of a promising field of recruitment. (viii) A campaign for recruitment of nurses can be very successfully organised, as undoubtedly nursing is a very attractive profession, full of intense human interest. The success of the campaign depends, however, on removing the fears of the girls and their parents that 9
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