Nursing and kindred services.

Date:
1938
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nursing and kindred services. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    50. Nurses who find financial difficulty in taking training in Public Health work have two methods of meeting such difficulty : — ; (a) An advance of salary during their six months of training in Public Health work may be obtained from the Local Authority in certain areas, provided the candidate undertakes to serve as health visitor in those areas for at least six months after obtaining the Health Visitor’s Certificate. (b) An approved course of training of at least three academic terms covering the syllabus for the examina- tion for the Health Visitor’s Certificate may be taken while the student, who must be a trained nurse holding the Certificate of the Central Midwives Board, is employed by the Local Authority in the capacity of probationer health visitor, at a salary not exceeding three-quarters of that of the ordinary commencing salary of a health visitor. Health visiting is carried out under supervision and is regarded as part of the practical training. Health visitors who are also trained nurses probably have the best chance of securing appointments under Local Author- ities. 51. Scotland.—In Scotland the examination for the Health Visitor Certificate is conducted by the Royal Sanitary Asso- ciation of Scotland in accordance with regulations approved by the Department of Health for Scotland. This certificate has also been recognised, subject to certain exceptions, by the Ministry of Health, for the purpose of appointments in England and Wales. Grants in aid of courses of training are paid by the Department of Health for Scotland to the approved training institutions, viz., the Department of Social Study and Training, Edinburgh University, and the School of Social Study and Training, Glasgow University. The conditions relating to train- ing for the Health Visitor Certificate and the payment of grant to training institutions are described in N.M. & C. Memo. No. 36/1932, issued by the Department of Health for Scotland and obtainable (price 1d.) from H.M. Stationery Office. Part-time health visitors are employed in many rural areas in Scotland. They are mostly district nurses of the Scottish Branch of the Queen’s Institute of District Nursing, who have received a modified health visitor training during their course of district nursing at the Institute. 52. The Certificate Examination.—The examination for the Health Visitor’s Certificate includes the following subjects :— elementary physiology and structure of the body; personal and domestic hygiene; general hygiene and sanitation; infectious and communicable diseases; maternity, infant and child welfare: school medical services; sanitary law and administration; ele- mentary economics and social problems; and the principal legal enactments and regulations connected with these subjects.
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