.lpril
I , 1933
inittee, i s the name of our great leader for wllom I
have a1xVayS cherished intense loyalty, admiration,
and affection, and chiefly for that reason I shall
treasure my State Certificate.
With warmest good wishes for success in the
new fight for justice,
I am, Yours sincerely,
EMILY
DINNIE,
Registered Nurse.
2‘5
PRORESSIONAL
DAMAGE
WOULD RESULT FROM
PUBLICITY.
S.T.M.-“ I am the father of a nurse and she
often consults me on matters of business. We have
read the reports of the controversy on the various
matters under dispute in the General Nursing
Council, and the very able correspondence which
has appeared in THEBRITISHJOURNAL OF NURSING
upon it. I n this connection, I would venture t o
A GRAVE INJUSTICE TO FEVER NURSES. ask, do the ladies who sign their names hold
TO the Editor Of THEBRITISHJOURNAL OF NURSING. hospital appointments, or are they economically
MADAM,-I am writing t o express the indigna- free to express an opinion ? How about Councillor
tion Fever Nurses feel, at the removal of Miss Beatrice Kent, Mary Burr, Julia Hurlston, S. J,
VillierS from the Education Committee of the Rossiter, Ellen B. Kingsford, Ethel Pickering, and
Grace S. Sardy ? May I also ask if letters sent
General Nursing Council.
Seeing that Fever Nursing i s a very important signed with a nom de plume, which you exclude,
factor in the Public Health Department, I and my are from those worlring under lay authority-Le.,
colleagues think that it is most important that Hospital and Infirmary Boards? This is an
me retain the services of a woman like Miss Villiers. interesting point. From reports which have
Who more capable than she to suggest the reached me, I have come to the conclusion that
standard of education required for a Fever Nurse the system of secret comrnttnication between
Probationer, and to watch our interests on the Matrons which malres or mars a nurse’s career is
a system of active terrorism which Should not be
Council when me have gained our certificate ?
permitted in any profession-and which largely
Sours faitlifully,
accounts for the boasted zo,ooo members of the
CATHERINERELIHAN,
College of Nursing, Ltd. I advised my daughter to
Fever N74vse.
join it, as I felt sure she would be discriminated
South Western Fever Hospital,
against at her training school if she did not.”
Stoclnvell.
[Only one of the nurses named is worlung in
KERNELS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
a hospital, the others are free from economic
A BREACH
OF FAITH
WITH NURSESO N ENGLISHcontrol, The majority of the letters received
REGISTER.
signed with a nom depl7ime are from dependent
AIiss Jenit Lawsolz.-“ Some of us Scottish nurses, who are certainly under the impression that
nurses in England think we had better register in professional damage would result from publicity.
Scotland, as the standard is to be higher than in We do not approve of the ’‘ advice” given to “ my
England. We don’t care t o place our names on daughter ” by our correspondent ; in our opinion,
a Register over which the Council has no practical it is calculated to corrupt her integrity.-ED.j
supervision, and where nurses can be admitted
REPLIES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
without first-hand documentary evidence. This
new Rule is a distinct breach of faith wit11 nurses
Several private nurses have written t o us to
already on the English Register.”
ask what professional letters they may legally
INTHE NURSERY
EATINGCURDS AND WHEY. print on their cards for doctors and the public.
Our reply is that they are not entitled to use
.I Coiiteitzpfiblc.--l‘ In the years to come, when
we’ve all passed over, ’twillbe forgotten \vho ran any “ letters.” Under the Nurses’ Registration
with the liare and barked wit11 the hounds : but Act the titles in full, “ Registered Nurse,” “ RegisRegistration-your imperial vision, and all that tered Male Nurse,” “ Registered Sick Children‘s
it implies-will
be a lasting monumen? t o the Nurse,” “ Registered Mental Nurse,’’ and Regisnames of two who brought real spirit Into the tered Fever Nurse,” may be printed. Under the
Nursing World-Ish Stewart and Ethel Bedford Midwives’ Act the legal title is “ Certified Midwife.”
Fenwiclr. For the present we may be swamped The use of the letters I ‘ C.M.B.” has been refused.
by filthy lucre = “Nation’s Fund”; if SO, We hope the letters “ R.N.” will be allowed.
we’ll go down, like Kipling’s “ Jollies,” to
---..t h e “ Birl~.%headDrill,” as women who consider
their profession second only to that of matrimony, OUR PRIZE COMPETITION QUESTIONS.
and not t o be used as a rung in the ladder for
April 8th.-Detail
the nursing of a patient
climbers t o “ Social success.” NO wonder Lords sufferingfrom a fractured pelvis. What complicaBirkenliead and Buclunaster speak disparagingly tions must be looked for, and, if present, reported
of our sex ; look at present-day Nurses. Psycho- t o the surgeon ?
logically they are still in the nursery eating curds
April ~gth.-What steps would you take as a
and whey ; they haven’t the energy to run away midwife in a country town to safeguard the health
from the spider, much less cultivate the great of expectant mothers who have booked you t o
force their Creator gave them as women. The
attend them when their babies are born ?
essence of Love is Freedom, and what woman
exercising such failed to keep her husband and
We regret we cannot award a prize ffiis week.
her sons ? ”
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