Annual report of the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Children's Hospital and Leicester and Leicestershire Maternity Hospital : 1943.

  • Leicester Royal Infirmary
Date:
1943
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Credit: Annual report of the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Children's Hospital and Leicester and Leicestershire Maternity Hospital : 1943. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT ON NURSING STAFF. The year 1943 has been a very momentous one for the Nursing Profession generally and as such it has affected the Nursing Staff of the Leicester Royal Infirmary in common with others. The Government—Ministries of Health and Labour—has taken charge more than ever before, and Nurses have become ‘ ‘Man-power”. The earliest change was the publication of theRushcliffe report which not only put Nurses salaries on a better basis, but on a national basis, and made the Government grant conditional on certain improvements which will do much in the future to bring about a more uniform and satisfactory state for Nurses. The Horder Committee set up by the Royal College of Nursing under the Chairmanship of Lord Horder has now pub¬ lished three reports. The first report on the Assistant Nurse has been largely implemented in the Nurses Act of 1943. The second and third reports on Education and Training and on Recruitment aim at establishing a sound educational training, giving the student nurse true student status. Many new recommendations wait for fulfilment. These recommendations will be implemented now as far as is possible, but after the war there will be further changes. The extra work in the Infirmary during the past year has made the Nurses’ training more of a strain. The Nurses Act has legalised the position of the Assistant Nurse and it is hoped that members of the Civil Nursing Reserve who have given good service here during the War will be in a better position later as a result of the Act. The Ministry of Labour has set up a Central Advisory Council in London with Local Councils in different parts of the country. The Appointments Officers with Nurse Technical Advisors super¬ vise the right allocation of Nurse power. Nurses do not appre¬ ciate the somewhat limited scope of their efforts now, though they realise they have had up to the present time considerable freedom. It is sincerely hoped that the guidance of Nurses will rest with the profession after the War. Direction can now be applied to Midwives—other Nurses are simply controlled. Our improvements here have resulted in the opening of “Forest Edge”-—a large house at Leicester Forest East, as an
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