Memorandum re Shortage of Nurses
1924-07 1924 1920s 8 pages - 8 - (92) profession was fit to hold the post of examination officer, so that it had to be given to a young girl of 24 who was not even a nurse. Again, when a temporary interviewing officer was required by the General Nursing Council, although many nurses who had done goo...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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July 1924
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/CFF753DB-5A0B-4210-BA64-BDE3B9E67CF0 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/22711DF5-E8F5-4872-B107-8EC943AC76DD |
| Summary: | 1924-07
1924
1920s
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- 8 - (92) profession was fit to hold the post of examination officer, so that it had to be given to a young girl of 24 who was not even a nurse. Again, when a temporary interviewing officer was required by the General Nursing Council, although many nurses who had done good war service, besides being thoroughly trained as secretaries applied for the post, it was privately given to her personal friend by the Matron who was Chairman of the General Purposes Committee. Without the formality of calling her Committee together, she appointed this friend to the post, in spite of the fact that she was a retired matron, already in receipt of a pension of £250 per annum from a charitable institution. As, therefore, matrons, medical men, etc., seem able to appoint whomsoever they choose amongst their friends to the higher nursing posts, there would appear to be very little use in any intelligent woman going into the Profession and risking the loss of her health to become a trained nurse. If the Labour Party will help us to build up the Nurses' Trade Union, by making the Hospitals realise that it will stand by nurses, those things might be remedied, which seems a consummation devoutly to be desired both in the interests of the sick and of nurses themselves.
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