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HOME NURSING
This is provided on an agency basis by the Croydon District
Nursing Association and Miss Dickinson, the Superintendent
reports:-
It has been a rather heavy year, partly due to the long term
sickness of nurses and the fact that part-time staff have taken
their places.
There has been a distinct change in the type of work
received from the Doctors. There have not been so many Pencillen
etc. injections but a good deal more general nursing
which, of course, takes the nurses much longer.
The Rehabilitation Nurse has been kept busy throughout the
year, chiefly by the Doctors who now know that she is working
for the Croydon District Nursing Association.
The number of Male Nurses will be increased to five during
the coming year. The need for this increase is chiefly due to
heavy patients being discharged from hospitals, and also special
requests by the Doctors for a male nurse to attend.
In 1950 there was only one male nurse on the staff of the
Association so there has been a steady increase in the work for
male nurses.
The students in the future will join Surrey County for their
new lecture courses and the length of training will be four
months for S.R.N's. and three months for S.R.N's. who have Midwifery
Certificate or who have spent at least 18 months on the
district instead of six and four months respectively.
The number of Nurses trained for the Queen's Roll during the
year was 10 and all were successful in the examinations.
Tables given in Appendix, page 111.
LOAN OF HOME NURSING EQUIPMENT
A request was received for the loan of a patient's mechanical
hoist. These are expensive items costing some £70 each.
They are, however, invaluable for dealing with helpless bedridden
patients and authority was obtained for two to be purchased especially
for use by the District Nurses.
Demands for other items showed the rising trend observed
over recent years, but occasioned no particular difficulties.
Tables given in Appendix, page 114.