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District Nurse Training
This training has continued during the year at Chiswick
Polytechnic. Two nurses took the course in September and were successful.
This is lower than in previous years because the arrangements with Surrey
County Council were cancelled early in the year when the tutor resigned.
It is planned to send students to Surrey and also to Chiswick
for postgraduate district nurse training, which is now recommended as a
necessary requirement by the Department of Health and Social Security.
Two senior nurses undertook the Practical Workers Instructors
Course and several members of the staff attended special courses on topics
of interest, e.g. care of the feet, stoma care, group attachment.
This Authority continues to receive visits from students, both
those in training and postgraduate nurses who wish to see the work of the
nurse in the community.
The Nursing Superintendent has lectured to nurses in training
at Kingston and Surbiton Hospitals.
Later in the year it was also agreed to hold an introductory
day in community nursing for the student nurses at The Manor Hospital,
Epsom.
The General Nursing Council have now made regulations for this
to be a compulsory subject in nurse training, both for the General
Register and in the psychiatric and subnormal fields.
HEALTH VISITING
Health visiting establishment was increased from twenty-nine
to thirty health visitors during 1971, which enabled them to give up
their traditional geographical areas and become responsible for the
families on the lists of general practitioners within the local authority
boundary.
A lunch time meeting to discuss attachment of local authority
nursing staff to general practices was organised at the Medical Centre,
Kingston Hospital, and was well attended by general practitioners, hospital
and local authority medical and nursing staff. A general practitioner, a
health visitor and a district nurse from different group practices were