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Medical Officer, withdrawn from the sick,
be supplied by additional mical assistance, and taking
care that duties, & authority of the Matron over the Nursing
Staff is properly defined
& guarded
7. As to the Nurses: -
They must be under the Matron.
They must be amenable to her along in discipline
and for the discharge of duties
subject to appeal to the Guardians or the Local Government Board thro' the Guardians,
- in the same cases in which, in Military Hospitals
Nurses have right of appeal to Secretary of State.
The Matron & Nurses must be obliged to obey
the professional orders of the Medical Officer:
Subject to complaint against Nurses solely to the
Matron: and against the Matron to the Managers
or through them
or to the President of the Loval Govt. Board.
(Such complaint to be transmitted through the
Committee or Guardians.)
The Matron must look to the Medical Officer
for professional instructions which she has to obbey:
but for nothign else.
She should be supreme over her Department, so long
as she discharges her duty & sees that her
Nurses discharge theirs - is not she?
She loses her supremacy only when she
neglects her duty or fails to see that her Nurses
discharge theirs: and this only