The Labour Party and the Nursing Profession
1927 1927 1920s 40 pages 8 SICK NURSING SERVICES. PRELIMINARY. This section of the report is based on questionnaires circulated to various kinds of hospitals. The actual numbers sent and the answers received are shown below:— No. sent. No. received. Poor Law Infirmaries 73 29...
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London : The Labour Party (London : Co-operative Print. Society Ltd.)
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8 SICK NURSING SERVICES. PRELIMINARY. This section of the report is based on questionnaires circulated to various kinds of hospitals. The actual numbers sent and the answers received are shown below:— No. sent. No. received. Poor Law Infirmaries 73 29 General Hospitals (over 100 beds) 59 25 General Hospitals (under 100 beds) 120 24 Special Hospitals ........................ 29 ...... 12 Fever Hospitals including 15 hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board 77 ...... 32 District Nursing Associations ......... 22 ...... 16 It is a fair inference to assume that this sample represents the best existing conditions, as all the Poor Law Infirmaries, all the large general hospitals, and the majority of the fever hospitals from which returns were received have been approved as training schools by the General Nursing Council. On such incomplete data, only the most tentative conclusions can be drawn, and no attempt has been made to paint an exact picture for the country as a whole. THE REGISTRATION OF FULLY TRAINED NURSES. The Registration Act of 1919 provides for a General Register for nurses who have had training in a general hospital, and a supplementary register for those who have qualified as Sick Children's Nurses, Mental Nurses, and Fever Nurses. From July, 1925, only those nurses who pass State examinations will he admitted to the Register. Registration is not compulsory, but any nurse falsely posing as a registered nurse is subject to a fine. The administration of the Act is entrusted to the General Nursing Council for England and Wales and the General Nursing Council for Scotland. The G.N.C. for England and Wales is composed of 25 members : 5 appointed by the Minister of Health ; 2 appointed by the Board of Education ; and 2 by the Privy Council; 16 are elected by the nurses on the Register, 5 of the 16 by nurses on the supplementary register and 11 by those on the general register. The G.N.C. has issued syllabi of subjects for examination in the various branches of nursing. It has also published syllabi of lectures and demonstrations for education and training for the various branches. It has issued a list of "approved hospitals" ; these must be such as to satisfy the Council that they provide an adequate staff and equipment for teaching, in accordance with the prescribed syllabus. It also approves as a training school, combinations of the smaller hospitals which, although having inadequate equipment separately, provide the necessary requirements if working together. The Council is at presemt considering a scheme of systematic inspection. HOSPITALS — GENERAL, SPECIAL AND FEVER. AGE OF ADMISSION TO TRAINING. There appears to be no uniform minimum age for girls seeking admission to hospitals as probationers. Among the general hospitals reporting from Scotland and the provinces the age of admission was almost equally divided between the two age groups — 19 and 20. This is in marked contrast to the London general hospitals, for almost all of which the age of admission is 21. For practically all of the Poor Law Infirmaries, 19 is the required age of
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