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in local hospitals each attended for one day to undertake visits of
observation.
Thirty-two student nurses from St. George's Hospital spent eight
weeks with the staff of the community nursing service to gain an
insight into their work and its relationship to other services provided
by the local authority and to the general practitioner service.
Two senior home nurses organised and ran an in-service training
course on " Hypothermia of the Elderly which was attended by
all the nursing auxiliaries.
As a result of a new demand for home nursing service for
patients undergoing renal dialysis at home, a short course on the
techniques of renal dialysis was arranged with Fulham Hospital
Renal Dialysis Unit. Five nurses attended the five-day course and
were subsequently able to undertake the home nursing care of such
patients.
All in all, an extremely active year so far as training was concerned
!