This guide is for nurses and their colleagues who wish to explore the subject of nurse's attitudes to their patients. It is addressed in particular to nurses with some measure of responsibility for staff or student management who would like to start a discussion group around this subject.
Reasons advanced for the shortage of nurse tutors are often based on guesswork and emotion so it is particularly useful to have an accurate and impartial study like this. The survey analysed the attitudes towards becoming tutors of 684 sisters in teaching hospitals, other general hospitals and psychiatric hospitals, and ...
In recent years considerable advances have taken place in understanding the processes by which people learn, and this has lead to the development of new techniques in learning. The underlying purpose of this survey is: to discover areas of knowledge that cause nurses, especially pupil nurses, particular difficulty; to indicate ...
This is a report of a conference which was held on Tuesday 28 February 1967 and attended by approximately 100 people, the majority of whom were doctors, nurses and pharmacists. The doctor's view about inpatient medication was concerned with problems arising from prescribing systems in hospitals. It was suggested that ...
This memorandum updates the recommendations made in the 1950 memorandum to reflect changes in the nursing profession. The recommendations cover the following: provision of a doctor for the nurses; entry into hospital; sick bay facilities; prevention of infection; mental health of the nurses (that is, relationships, counselling and companionship); living ...
This memorandum makes recommendations to ensure a good standard of health among nurses. The main recommendations are: that a doctor be appointed specifically for the nursing staff; that hospitals should require a medical certificate before candidates are accepted for training, and that a medical examination is carried out shortly after ...
This document considers the setting up of preliminary training schools (that is, schools of nursing) for student nurses, so that the newly-arrived candidate for training does not work on a ward without hospital training. The document suggests that although groups may be formed and schools established and maintained without any ...
This report provides a critical response to the Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses which was submitted to the Minister of Health. It points out that in reaching their conclusions, the Working Party appear to have achieved a high degree of detachment from the ...
This report considers the working requirements of nurses, for example, ward layout, domestic staff support and nurse 'pools'. It concludes that if nursing is seen as an over-worked and under-staffed profession, then it will be difficult to recruit new staff. To counter this various suggestions for improving standards of care ...