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Marie Curie Night Nursing Service
This service has expanded during the year, particularly
the last quarter - October to December, due to the increase in the
number of terminal cases being nursed at home who require skilled
night nursing or nursing auxiliaries.
Payment for this is reimbursed by the Marie Curie Memorial
Foundation. This is a voluntary organisation which has a special
interest in the welfare of the cancer patient.
Laundry Service for the Incontinent
This service is only provided for patients having treatment
by the district nurse, and whose relatives have no facilities for
coping with this problem. Six clean draw sheets are provided twice
weekly and the soiled sheets are collected for laundering. The
service is greatly appreciated by the relatives who are so often under
stress and hard pressed in nursing very ill persons at home.
Disposable incontinence pads and special geriatric
protective garments are also issued to certain patients.
District Nurse Training
In 1968 five students were trained for the National
Certificate in District Nursing.
The examination for the Queen's Roll, which was organised
by the Queen's Institute of District Nursing, has now ceased. All
students take their practical experience in the Surbiton Nurses Home
and their theoretical training at Ewell Technical College by arrangement
with Surrey County Council.
The superintendent of home nursing has been approved as an
examiner by the panel of assessors at the Department of Health and
Social Security.
Four student nurses from Hammersmith Hospital (University
of Surrey) Integrated Training Scheme have taken the first part of
their practical training at Surbiton Nurses Home. They will return
to complete their district nursing training at the end of their third
year in Hammersmith Hospital.