Britain's Health Services
1942-10 1942 1940s 40 pages Nurses" and members of the numerous "Auxiliaries" with a specified amount of experience could straightaway be submitted to an examination both in practice and theory. A Test Paper of medium standard could be set by the General Nursing Council, a...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/3A9014C3-49A2-42CF-8660-092DAA471467 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/942E4DA7-0D5F-4D59-A098-CD28BCDBE4EF |
| Summary: | 1942-10
1942
1940s
40 pages
Nurses" and members of the numerous "Auxiliaries" with a specified amount of experience could straightaway be submitted to an examination both in practice and theory. A Test Paper of medium standard could be set by the General Nursing Council, and the examining and marking of papers could be done by doctors and sister tutors in all hospitals which are recognised training schools for nurses. All Nurses other than State Registered Nurses and Student Nurses (for State Registration) should be obliged to submit themselves for this examination. Those who passed would become R.A.N's, and those who failed would be suitably categorised according to their degree of proficiency. This proposal, which could be put into effect immediately, would overcome many of the difficulties regarding status and qualifications, etc. which now exist outside the ranks of "regular" nurses, and would solve most of the existing anomalies within the junior grades of nursing. There is one final point in regard to female nurses which the Communist Party strongly emphasises. There should be a much better planned and more attractively presented propaganda drive for the recruitment of young girls into the profession, and to this end the reporting of nursing conditions should be more accurate and not one-sided. From much of the publicity given to nursing in the past the conclusion might be formed that there was nothing good to be said for it and yet thousands of girls take up the work each year. Why? Because, despite certain poor conditions (most have been referred to in this pamphlet and it is hoped that they will all soon be things of the past) there is tremendous scope in nursing for intelligent girls who want interesting work. The care of patients can be, and often is, an all-absorbing job and the scientific medical and nursing knowledge in which all student nurses are tutored is a most fascinating study. There is also much fun and good social life in many of the more progressive hospitals, and nursing is one of the professions most suited to the natural "bent" of the majority of women. These points should always be stressed in discussions of nursing work and conditions. Nurses should be encouraged by the thought that their service stands high in the scale of self-satisfying and socially-useful work, and when remaining injustices 23
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