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Maternity Liaison Committee
The Medical Officer of Health continued to act as Chairman of
the St. Helier Group Maternity Liaison Committee which ensures cooperation
of the hospital, general practitioner and local health authority
maternity services.
HOME NURSING
Staff
On 31st December, 1967, the staff consisted of:—
1 Superintendent of the Home Nursing Service.
1 Deputy Superintendent of the Home Nursing Service.
32 Whole-time Home Nurses (female) — S.R.N, and District
Trained.
2 Whole-time Home Nurses (male) — S.R.N, and District
Trained.
3 Whole-time Home Nurses (female) — S.E.N, not District
Trained.
4 Part-time Nursing Auxiliaries (female).
With a large nursing staff, some turnover of staff is inevitable,
due to retirement of older members of staff and removal from the area
in the case of married staff whose husbands' place of employment
moves to areas outside the Borough. In spite of this the Authority
managed throughout the year to maintain a reasonably full complement
of nursing staff.
Two Nursing Auxiliaries were replaced during the year maintaining
the total of four part-time Nursing Auxiliaries on the establishment.
In-service training is given to these Nursing Auxiliaries by an
experienced Home Nurse and the Superintendent or Deputy Superintendent
satisfies herself, in each case, that the Auxiliary is competent
to carry out her work unsupervised before actually doing so.
Organisation
The Borough is divided into eight areas of differing population
and size, and each area is staffed by a group of Home Nurses. Requests
for the services of a Home Nurse are principally referred by
general practitioners. These are taken mainly by telephone at the
Health Department and are passed to the nurse concerned on the same
day.
Gradual changes are taking place in the type of nursing required
in the patient's own home, as well as in the type of nurse supplying
the service.
As in previous years, the Home Nursing Service continued to
centre round the elderly, infirm and chronically sick patient, some
80% of all cases being in this category.
Training of District Nurses
This Authority is approved as a training area for the practical
part of the District Nurse training, leading to the Queen's Institute
District Nursing Certificate. Students attend the Queen's Institute
Headquarters in London for their theoretical instruction.
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