Nurses in the making, Joyce Grove Convalescent Home, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire
A sister tutor instructing student nurses on the handling of sterile equipment. It was originally titled “Don’t do that” as the Sister Tutor is stoppiing a student nurse who would have touched a sterile dish with her unsterile hand. A preliminary training school was established at St Mary’s Hospital, London in the early 1920s. It then moved to Joyce Grove Convalescent Home and formed a Joint Preliminary Training School with Westminster Hospital. Under the supervision of a Sister Tutor, probationers would spend three months learning basic skills in hygiene, first aid, nursing and cookery. Typically probationers would then take an examination and, if successful, would proceed to spending time in the wards before entry into a school of nursing if they were good enough.
Location
Oxfordshire NettlebedPeriod
World War Two (1939 - 1945)Themes
