The Labour Party and the Nursing Profession
1927 1927 1920s 40 pages 23 responsibilities that entail the employment of nurses, and that grants to associations can be obtained through such bodies as well as from Boards of Guardians and the Red Cross Fund of the County Nursing Association." In Gloucestershire, owing to the forward pol...
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London : The Labour Party (London : Co-operative Print. Society Ltd.)
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23 responsibilities that entail the employment of nurses, and that grants to associations can be obtained through such bodies as well as from Boards of Guardians and the Red Cross Fund of the County Nursing Association." In Gloucestershire, owing to the forward policy of the County Medical Officer of Health, the district nurses are associated with all public work, such as health visiting, school nursing, and tuberculosis visiting, and nearly all the district nursing associations co-operate freely. Consequently, out of the County Nursing Association's annual income of £28,000, £4,000 comes from the County Council; £1,250 from the Ministry of Health; £600 from the Boards of Guardians. An example of district nursing associations not affiliated to Q.V.J.I. is given below : — NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. The Cathedral Nursing Society employs eight nurses and a Superintendent with three to four years' general training at a large infirmary of not less than 200 beds. The supply is quite inadequate and the nurses are much overworked. There is a pressing need for twelve more. Wages paid compare favourably with those received by a Queen's nurse. In London and the provinces the number of district nurses is entirely inadequate to cope with the work which could be usefully done by them. Many are at present much overworked and little or no provision is made for massage, electrical treatment, etc., in the patients' homes. ORGANISATIONS OF NURSES. The College of Nursing is the largest organisation of trained nurses, with a membership of over 25,000. Its affairs "are managed by a Council of 36, who are nominated and elected by the direct votes of the members collected by post, so that the constitution is entirely free and democratic." The Council for the present year consists of four private nurses, twelve matrons and ex-matrons, nine doctors, seven superintendents and ex-superintendents, one sister tutor, one organiser of the Q.V.J.I.N., and two lay members. The College pursues a forward policy with regard to the interests of nurses. During the past year lecturers from the College have visited girls' high schools for the purpose of attracting well-educated girls to the nursing profession. The College has advocated a statutory grant for sick nursing at home. The Royal British Nurses' Association was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1893. It is concerned with the well-being of nurses in practice, and in sickness and old age. It is mainly philanthropic and social in its character. The Professional Union of Trained Nurses is registered as a Trade Union, with a membership of 400. The British College of Nurses has lately been formed, and £100,000 has been given by an anonymous donor towards the expenses of its formation. The Council is composed entirely of State registered nurses with a general hospital training, and only nurses with these qualifications will be accepted as members. The National Asylum Workers' Union is the organisation dealing with mental nurses, and particulars of it are in the section on mental nurses.
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