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Staff Changes
Eight nurses left during 1971 for the following reasons:—
To work overseas 2
To work nearer home following a change in
address 1
Due to sickness 2
Marriage 1
Pregnancy 1
To work in hospital (later returned to district
nursing) 1
Four nursing auxiliaries left during 1971 for the following
reasons:—
To resume nurse training 1
To work in hospital 2
Left district 1
Training of District Nurses
This Authority continued to be an approved training area for
the practical part of the District Nurse training leading to the National
Certificate of District Nurse Training.
Three State Registered Nurses and two State Enrolled Nurses
successfully completed their training. All are still employed by this
Authority.
Visiting Hospital Staff
Nurses from many hospitals, trained and in training, have visited
the Department throughout the year.
Our staff are pleased to welcome trained hospital staff in order
to give them an opportunity of seeing what facilities there are available
for their patients' continuing care, and also to see how their nurse
colleagues in the community work. For nurses in training, community
experience is an essential part in learning to care for a patient as a
member of a family and part of the community in which he lives.
Number of days on which training visits, or visits of observation
were made—248.
General Practitioner Attachments
At the end of the year arrangements had been completed for the
attachments of staff to 65 doctors within 23 practices. Nursing staff,
general practitioners and patients appreciate this close working relationship.
Some nursing staff have carried out nursing procedures within
the doctors' surgeries. There have been numerous requests for an
expansion of this work, but with existing staff trying to meet increasing
demands previously mentioned, it has not been possible to agree to
this.
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