Staffing the Hospitals : An Urgent National Need

1945 1945 1940s 20 pages 8 out of the hospital which they are prepared to serve. Married student nurses who so desire and who are able to meet the reasonable requirements of the hospital will be encouraged to complete their training. 22. Part-time Nursing. — Greater opportunities must be...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Great Britain. Ministry of Labour and National Service. (contributor)
Institution:MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Language:English
English
Published: London : Published for the Minister of health, the Secrerary of State for Scotland and the Minister of labour and national service by H.M.S.O. 1945
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10796/D29D8DFB-C7EB-4D05-BA54-A124171F25E1
http://hdl.handle.net/10796/5A7D233F-E80E-40CB-8CF0-E41B47E2FAB8
Description
Summary:1945 1945 1940s 20 pages 8 out of the hospital which they are prepared to serve. Married student nurses who so desire and who are able to meet the reasonable requirements of the hospital will be encouraged to complete their training. 22. Part-time Nursing. — Greater opportunities must be provided for those who are qualified and willing to do nursing work but can give only part-time service. 23. Increased Salaries. — Machinery for the agreement of salaries and related conditions of service already exists in the Nurses and Midwives Salaries Committees. The Nurses Salaries Committee for England and Wales has now made new recommendations for higher scales of salary for certain groups of nurses, and further recommendations in respect of other groups, including mental nurses and midwives, are being considered. Under the scales now recommended a trained Staff Nurse will begin at £120 a year and ultimately reach £180 a year ; a Ward Sister will begin at £160 a year and reach £260 a year ; and an enrolled Assistant Nurse will begin at £90 a year and reach £160 a year. Board, lodging and other emoluments are provided in addition. The maximum salaries now recommended are from £40 to £60 in excess of the existing maxima. The salaries in sanatoria, tuberculosis hospitals and tuberculosis wards will continue to be £10 a year higher throughout the scales, and special service allowances will be payable for continuous service in pulmonary tuberculosis institutions. The Nurses Salaries Committee for Scotland has made recommendations differing only in minor respects from those made by the Committee for England and Wales. Full details, including the method of application of the new scales to existing nurses will be announced as soon as possible. 24. Ward Orderlies. — It is proposed to encourage the wider establishment of a grade of hospital workers — already established in some hospitals — who may be described as ward orderlies. These orderlies who may be either men or women are direct auxiliaries to the nurses in the hospital ward, and experience has shown that a very important part can be played by the ward orderly in supporting and relieving the nurse. This grade provides a field of recruitment for those who have already acquired hospital experience (e.g. in the Civil Nursing Reserve, V.A.D., British Red Cross Society, St. John Ambulance Brigade or elsewhere) but are not eligible for enrolment as Assistant Nurses, as well as for others who do not wish to take the nursing examinations but are interested in doing useful hospital work in the wards. DOMESTIC AND OTHER WORKERS IN HOSPITALS 25. It is impossible to over emphasise the value and importance of the many kinds of domestic and other non-nursing work which keep the wheels of a great hospital turning. Domestic workers are, with doctors, nurses and all other hospital staff, part of a team whose co-operative work has one aim in view — the care of the patient; and an efficient hospital service cannot exist without a full complement of workers in all branches. 126/TG/RES/X/1036A/4
Physical Description:TEXT