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Author:: Voluntary Hospitals Committee for London and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1947

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1943
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Hughes, R. D.
Publication date:: 1974
Abstract:: This survey of employee opinion was an innovation in the hospital field and so it is hoped that it will be of interest to a wider audience than just the London Hospital Group as some of the results have implications of more general interest. A small number of results from ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1947
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1945
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1976
Abstract:: The seminar programme took shape from from the objectives drawn up and agreed by the steering committee. The objectives were a study of the re-alignment of roles involving, among other things, interaction between nurses and physicians and other professions, and the advancement of nurses, either in institutional or organisational management, ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1963
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1950
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1947
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: MacGuire, Jillian and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1971
Abstract:: This document discusses the development of planned programmes of training for nurses. A planned programme of training is as a result of reference to a training programme (a frame of reference which allows one to construct a programme of nurse training and education). A planned programme of training is a ...

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