Memorandum re Shortage of Nurses
1924-07 1924 1920s 8 pages - 5 - (92) "The College (of Nursing, Ltd.) is not encouraging the formation of a Trade Union for the Nursing Profession for, whilst it is essential that the economic conditions of the members should be carefully safeguarded, it is also essential that the priceless...
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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/10796/8D3D613F-9F35-46EB-8924-4F6B61302F36 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/838E18FD-EAE9-4297-93B3-4B6D0D51404B |
| Summary: | 1924-07
1924
1920s
8 pages
- 5 - (92) "The College (of Nursing, Ltd.) is not encouraging the formation of a Trade Union for the Nursing Profession for, whilst it is essential that the economic conditions of the members should be carefully safeguarded, it is also essential that the priceless heritage given to the nurse in fulfilling in the highest sense the privelege [privilege] of service to the sick should not be endangered, or forgotten." One of the House Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital addressed the nurses on the same lines, giving them to understand that they could not at one and the same time belong to a trade union and perform their work efficiently. The Lady Superintendent of one large co-operation of private nurses prevented her staff from joining, or induced thosem [those] having joined, to resign, by informing then that they would have to associate with coal heavers if they belonged to a trade union. 2. Attitude of the Medical Profession towards Nurses. We should like especially to state that we have no illfeeling towards individual medical men or women; we have to thank some of them for great help given. Our grievance is with the attitude of the medical profession. We accord to doctors absolute and supreme control in the sick room or the hospital, but maintain that they have no right to interfere with the hours of employment or salaries of nurses. They would not allow any outside body to interfere with their own, and we hold that medical men should have no authority over the working conditions of nurses. We wish, moreover, that they could see eye to eye with those who maintain that the profession, in order to be of the greatest service to the community, cannot be too highly educated or too well trained. The attitude of the medical profession may be gathered from the remarks of a medical man who lately spoke at the Annual Meeting of the College of Nursing, Ltd. To quote:- "... other points were that the General Nursing Council Syllabus covered too much ground and was redundant; that the training was too long and the
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