Souvenir report / International Council of Nurses Quadrennial Congress.

  • International Council of Nurses. Quadrennial Congress
Date:
1937
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Credit: Souvenir report / International Council of Nurses Quadrennial Congress. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MIDWIFERY TRAINING HOMES. They number 17: some give both Queen’s and midwifery training. Candidates having the Health Visitor’s certificate require to take only four months’ Queen’s training. Selected Queen’s Nurses are given. scholarships to train for the Health Visitor’s, Training Mid- wife’s or other certificates. The Superintendents of the Service have great responsibility. Of those in a Public Health area of 3% million people, the Health Authority reported:— “The maintenance of the present high standard of domiciliary nursing is due to the type of woman to be found at the head of the large body of district nurses employed—the Superintendents of the District Nursing Associations, all women of the highest standing in their profession, with a tradition of work and service which they pass on to the nurses under them.” QUEEN’S NURSES. Queen Victoria gave to the Institute the major portion of her Jubilee gift from the women of the Kingdom. The Royal patronage and the human interest were continued by Queen Alexandra, and now by Queen Mary, and so come Queen’s Nurses by their Royal designation. The Roll of Queen’s Nurses is kept at the Central Office in London; and the bearer of the first name on it is still active—esteemed Dame Rosalind Paget; D.B.E- All are State-registered general trained nurses who have satisfactorily taken the Institute’s six months’ training in domiciliary technique and the ways of public service. They stand to the Nation as trained and equipped not only to do all the work known of when setting out on “rounds,” but to deal with any nursing emergency. Their professional status ranks with that of the Hospital ward sister. PROMOTION. These are as varied as numerous, viz.:— County Work: Organising and Supervising.— Emergency Nurse, Assistant County Superintendent, County Superintendent. Homes: ‘Training.—Senior Nurse, Training Midwife or Assistant Superintendent, Super- intendent. National WHeadquarters Staffs. — Organizers, Inspectors, Nursing Superintendent, Superin- tendent. The Council of the Institute appoints the General Superintendent of the Service. SALARIES. Salaries conform to a minimum scale fixed by the Institute. There is no maximum scale. Candidates.—At the rate of {60 per annum. Queen’s Nurses.—f70 first year; {80 secona year, rising by annual increments of {5 to £100; with residence, maintenance, service, laundry, uniform, equipment and _ travelling expenses. Nurses who practise midwifery receive an addi- tional {10 salary. Where an inclusive salary is arranged, the allowances are regulated as follows:— Maintenance.—17/6; Laundry, 3/6—1 1s. per week. Uniform, £8 per year. © Accommodation, the cost of two rooms, with fire, light and attendance. A furnished or unfurnished cottage may be provided, with appropriate alteration in the salary. An inclusive salary in a country district would amount to {200 upwards, plus equipment and travelling expenses, whether of motor car or cycle. Administrative posts (excluding the Senior executive appointments) :— Resident—Range from f105 to {275 and all found. Non-Resident.—From {250 to £400. PENSIONS. If not participating in the Federated Superannua- tion Scheme for Nurses, Associations must con- tribute at the rate of £3 per Queen’s Nurse employed to the Institute’s Long Service Fund, which provides an annuity of £40 to Queen’s Nurses who, having served twenty-one years, shall have reached the age of fifty-five and resigned. It is not contributed to by the nurses. INSURANCES. National Health, Employers’ Liability, Sickness, Indemnity, and Car or Cycle Insurances are all paid for by the Associations. VILLAGE NURSE-MIDWIVES. As the area of any Association must be such that any patient can be attended to at least twice daily, or in emergency, there are at work in many English and Welsh rural areas having populations of 3,000 or under, VILLAGE NURSE-MID- WIVES. They are all certified Midwives, one- third are fully-trained Hospital Nurses who elect not to become Queen’s Nurses. The remainder receive not less than eighteen months’ training in midwifery and district nursing from the County Nursing Associations to which their Associations
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