Staffing the Hospitals : An Urgent National Need
1945 1945 1940s 20 pages 10 APPENDIX 1 CONDITIONS OF SERVICE HOSPITAL NURSES AND MIDWIVES Note — This statement applies to all types of hospital, including mental hospitals, maternity hospitals, public assistance institutions, sanatoria, etc. Though, for convenience of drafting, the state...
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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.
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10 APPENDIX 1 CONDITIONS OF SERVICE HOSPITAL NURSES AND MIDWIVES Note — This statement applies to all types of hospital, including mental hospitals, maternity hospitals, public assistance institutions, sanatoria, etc. Though, for convenience of drafting, the statement refers in terms to female nurses, it applies also to midwives and with the necessary modifications, to male nurses. The conditions of service set out below represent a reasonable minimum* which should be aimed at in all hospitals and similar institutions. In many hospitals at the present time these conditions are substantially observed ; in many others their full observance is prevented only by lack of sufficient staff, or of adequate accommodation for staff. It is, moreover, recognised that some of the desirable conditions cannot be put into effect everywhere until new building work can be undertaken and supplies of essential equipment obtained, and that the vital importance of housing must inevitably seriously restrict the amount of building labour and materials available for other reconstruction work. It should be the aim of every hospital authority to institute immediately, or as soon as may be, such of these conditions as are attainable in present circumstances and are not already in force. Those which are not yet attainable should be brought into operation as soon as circumstances allow, and in making their plans for the future, hospital authorities should keep these objects constantly in view. 1. Training. — Hospital authorities responsible for the training of nurses should plan their nursing schools in accordance with the most modern concepts of nursing education and training. Nurses undergoing training should be regarded primarily as students. The training given should be so planned that the nurses have adequate time for study and are readily able to reach the standard required for the examinations for which they are studying, whilst still being able to undertake the practical work which is an essential part of the training and to take reasonable advantage of the recreational and social facilities available inside and outside the hospital. Training schools should have a preliminary training school (which might well cater for more than one hospital) in which student nurses, or pupil assistant nurses as the case may be, will undergo preliminary instruction prior to entry for training into the hospital wards. The adoption of the "block" system of training should be considered as an objective wherever the numbers allow. Small training units should, wherever possible, combine in group training schemes. The co-operation of the medical staff and other lecturers should be sought in fixing the times for lectures, so that off-duty time and sleep for night nurses are not interfered with. Candidates about to enter for an examination should be relieved of hospital duty for at least one full day before the examination begins. In all training schools adequate and fully-equipped accommodation should be provided for classes and for private study. Hospital authorities should do all they can to encourage and assist the establishment of pre-nursing courses by local education authorities. 2. Salaries. — Salaries, emoluments and related conditions of service should be in accordance with the agreed recommendations of the Nurses and Midwives Salaries Committees for England and Wales and for Scotland respectively. * The use of the word "minimum" in this context does not, of course, mean that the appropriate negotiating bodies are precluded from making recommendations which are to be of standard application, should they so decide.
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