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TERMS and REGULATIONS for the ENGAGEMENT of TRAINED PRIVATE NURSES
for the COLONIES.
1. Colonial nurses will be paid a salary of 60l. sterling per annum. Board and lodging being provided by the local committee in each Colony.
2. In every case salaries will be paid from the date of the nurse's arrival in the Colony, her term of service dating also from that day. Her second class passage out and home will be paid.
3. No nurse will be engaged for less than two or over three years.
4. It must be distinctly understood that nurses under engagement to the local com- mittee in a Colony are bound by its rules and regulations, and are subject to the authority of the president of that committee.
5. The Colonial Nursing Association expect each nurse to wear grey or blue uniform, and washing dresses when on duty. This rule is subject to modification by the local committee according to the climate in each Colony.
6. Each nurse engaged undertakes to refund to the Colonial Nursing Association her passage money out should she for reasons unapproved by the local committee break her engagement, or should the local committee find it necessary to terminate her engagement owing to serious misconduct on her part, and she will be required to find two persons who will guarantee such repayment.
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8. The nurse shall not attend infectious cases without special permission and, if due provision can be made, with the sanction of the medical inan, for the nursing of her
other cases.
9. In infectious cases charge should be made to meet the cost of disinfecting.
10. The cost of the nurse's journey to and from a case, and her washing during term of service, to be defrayed by the patient.
11. All complaints of a nurse to be made in writing to the hon. secretary of the local committee.
INFORMATION and SUGGESTIONS for LOCAL COMMITTEES.
Advantages of Affiliation.
1. To bring Colonies into connection with the Colonial Nursing Association, which supplies all the organization necessary at home to provide qualified private nurses for the Colonies.
2. To assist in raising the standard of trained nursing in the Colonies.
3. To obtain from the best sources trained midwives and nurses for the Colonies.
4. To entitle affiliated Colonies to such aid as the Colonial Nursing Association may be able to give.
The Colonial Nursing Association are prepared on application to engage and forward nurses to the Colonies, on receiving satisfactory assurance that the local management shall be in competent hands, and that the funds necessary for their maintenance shall be provided.
The following suggested rules have been found to work well in organizations of a similar nature in England :-
RULES FOR THE LOCAL COMMITTEE.
1. The nurse shall be responsible to the local committee and subject to the authority
of the president in all matters counected with her duty.
2. The services of the nurse are for cases that apply to the local committee, and no case is to be taken without the permission of the hon. secretary.
3. All applications for the services of the nurse should be made in writing to the
hon. secretary of the local committee.
4. The nurse when on duty shall wear uniform.
5. The nurse is strictly forbidden to interfere in any way with the religious opinions
of her patients or the members of their families.
6. The nurse shall work under the medical men, and shall apply to them at once in any case of difficulty.
7. An annual report of the nurse's work should always be forwarded to the Home Association in England.
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