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"The health visitors co-operated in the practical training
of the fol lowing: -
(a) Eight student nursery nurses visited infant welfare,
ante-natal, minor alments, chiropody and other special clinics
to meet the requirements of their training syllabus. The
students accompanied health visitors in certain selected home
visits with particular emphasis on breast feeding, artificial
feeding and the toddler.
(b) Pupil midwives from Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital
attended sessions at infant welfare clinics to comply with the
rules of the Central Midwives Board.
(c) Four health visitor students from the S. E. Essex
Technical College carried out part of their practical training
in the Borough. Two spent three months with the same two
Health Visitors to maintain continuity in the work. Two others
were given practical training in tuberculosis preventive
medicine.
(d) Final year student nurses from Connaught Hospital
spent two days in the Public Health field for practical training.
Eighteen students each spent half a day home visiting
with the district nurse, half-a-day with the health visitor
on selected visits and half a day at an infant welfare clinic.
Arrangements were made for the students to observe and discuss
minor ailment clinics, the chiropody service, and medical and
hygiene inspection in schools.
(e) I gave a series of four lectures on 'The social
aspects of Disease' to final year Connaught Hospital student
nurses according to the General Nursing Council syllabus.
(f) A health visitor student from the Royal College of
Nursing was given two weeks practical training in the Borough.
The College also sent a student taking an administrative
course, for two days, to receive instruction in the local
administration of the health visitors work."
HOME NURSING
(Section 25)
Miss N. Chadwick, S. R.N., S.C.M., H. V. Cert., Q.N.,
Superintendent of the District Nurses Training Home, reports
as follows: -