Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses.

Date:
1947
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Credit: Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This questionnaire was designed to elicit information under the following headings :— INTAKE INTO EMPLOYMENT | 1. Entering first employment after registration :— (a) trained within the institution. (b) trained elsewhere. 2. Entering from other nursing employment. OUTFLOW FROM EMPLOYMENT 3. Marriage. 4. Sickness. . Death. Retirement. Resignation. . Discharge. . Other reasons. Transfer to other nursing employment. SO MDIMM 1 69. New intake of trained nurses. We estimate that the number of qualified* nurses entering first employment in all hospitals each year between 1937 and 1945 was rather less than 10,000. This estimate is consistent with the annual number of successful candidates in the State General and Supplementary examinations of the General Nursing Councils; the examinations of the Royal Medico- Psychological Association and those of the Central Midwives Boards. The relevant figures for the General Nursing Councils and the Royal Medico-Psychological Association are shown in the Table below. TABLE XVI Number of nurses qualifying each year 1939-1945 Examinations of : oe Gener al : Meqeoe nace sts Nursing Councils Association Thousands Thousands Thousands 1939 8-0 1-4 9-4 1940 8-2 1:2 9-4 1941 7:6 1:2 8:8 1942 8:0 1-1 9-1 1943 8°8 0:8 9-6 1944 8°7 0:8 9:5 1945 9-7 0-7 10-4 AVERAGE 8-4 0:9 9:3 70. In addition to the 9-3 thousand shown in the last row of the above Table, there are some 300 non-State Registered Nurses included in our estimate of intake. The average number of successful candidates for Part I Midwifery was * As defined in Table II, footnote *, 7.¢., nurses who have passed the Final Examinations for the General or Supplementary Registers of the General Nursing Councils, State Certified Midwives and those with the certificate of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association.