East Anglian Region Timeline - 1974 | |
Fulbourn and Ida Darwin
Hospitals School of Nursing Cambridge |
In 1974 the East Anglian Region's Fulbourn & Ida Darwin Hospitals School of Nursing was based at Fulbourn, Cambridge. This school had training places places for 40 RMN student Nurses plus 50 SEN (Psychiatric 30 MI + 20 MS) pupil nurses per year. There was a Cadet Nurse scheme with 20 places to help feed recruitment. |
All were part of the then still mushrooming growth of the NHS following its inception in1948. An NHS which was to cater for all. Cradle to the grave. An NHS attempting to cover almost all known medical conditions. Not surprising then that since that beginning there had developed a plethora of nursing specialties, some sub-divided into highly specialized categories, all designed to meet particular needs. The nurses to meet those needs - General, Sick Children's, Mental, and Mental Subnormality Nurses, were all, by 1974, being trained under the auspices of the General Nursing Councils. One for England and Wales; one for Scotland; and one for Northern Ireland.
Fulbourn Hospital Ida Darwin Hospital |
RMN RNMS SEN Psychiatric MI) SEN Psychiatric MS) Cadets |
NB. Pro-forma badges - will be replaced with actual asap. | |
This 1974 timeline is about
the Cromer and District School of Nursing which trained the vast majority of nurses
who then initially practised in the area. About the courses. About the
students who followed them to become registered nurses. About the awards they
gained on the way. About their teachers, including ward staff. About the
hospitals. About nursing practice. Above all it is about the reality of the
practice of nurse education and training in the '70's. Perhaps you were one of
them. If so why not tell us all about it on our forum. Welcome!!
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