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By Helen M. Sweet
This ebook takes a clean examine group nursing heritage in nice Britain, analyzing the basically generalist and coffee profile, domiciliary finish of the pro nursing spectrum in the course of the 20th century. It charts the main major alterations affecting the nurse’s paintings at the district together with obligatory registration for common nursing, adjustments in association, education, stipulations of carrier, and workload. a powerful oral historical past part presents a special perception into the pro photographs of district nursing and the complexities of inter- and intra-professional relationships in addition to into the altering daily operating reviews of the district nurse at ‘grass-roots’ point. Use of oral heritage and documents of person nurses makes an attempt to rectify the tendency of nursing historical past to view nurses as though they have been a homogenous crew of execs, thereby spotting different stories of nurses in several areas and environments. The publication additionally considers the measure of impression of medically comparable applied sciences and of advancements in medications, fabrics, communications, and delivery at the specialist improvement of district nursing. The paintings addresses problems with gender relationships valuable to a nursing career mostly composed of ladies (throughout a lot of the interval) operating along a principally male-dominated clinical occupation.
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1850–1919 23 It is significant that at this time a trickle of women were beginning to enter the medical profession, signifying a wider movement both toward reform in the education of women and women aspiring to work in the health professions. The following observation contrasted the poor remuneration of educated, trained nurses being employed in the homes of the wealthy as well as the poor compared with professional rates being charged by this minority group of female doctors: There is no reason why the rich should not obtain for money services which are freely bestowed upon the poor.
This was to be achieved through better training and qualification, even though there was some difference of opinion as to the level of training and class of woman needed. Taking the Nightingale stance, this also implied a need for organisation and regulation as well as an improved professional image and public status. By this time district nursing had made great progress toward professionalisation. Nursing leaders and the media were describing it in terms of holding a professional status that was readily adopted.
It should not be forgotten that the two bodies are not on the same plane in this matter. 64 At this time Cornwall had a well-established County Nursing Association. 66 It is also significant that the Hon. 67 It is significant that this and other examples of interprofessional rivalries took place just before the 1911 NHI Act, other instances arising later in the 1930s. Although the 1911 NHI Act made considerable changes to provision of medical care, and was supported in principle by the QNI, comparatively few of the district nurse’s patients fell directly under its provision.