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Student nurse record books

Three record books (the first unlabelled, the second and third labelled 'Record of Student Nurses') containing personal details of Preliminary Training School entrants and second year nurses, including name, date of birth, address, secondary school, qualifications, previous experience, exam placings, and dates of examination.

The first two books overlap in date and contain some duplicate information. The date range for the third book is 1951-1954, but it contains an inserted reference request from 1984.

Preliminary Training School registers

Set of 17 square format registers containing information about nurses entering Preliminary Training School (latterly referred to as the Introductory Course), including name, date of birth, address, next of kin, previous occupation, education, weekly test and quiz marks, lecture and class attendance, exam results, remarks on practical work, and pasted/taped-in black and white group photographs annotated with names (though these are not included in vols 2 and 3). The earlier registers include a minority of trainees based at Victoria Hospital for Children (Tite Street) and Princess Beatrice Hospital (Old Brompton Road) in addition to those at St George's.

The date ranges for the registers (which are numbered with Roman numerals, though some labels are missing) are as follows:
I – 1948
II – 1950-1951
III – 1951-1952
IV – 1952-1953
V – 1953-1954
VI – 1954-1955
VII – 1955-1956
VIII – 1957-1958
IX – 1958-1959
X – 1959-1960
XI – 1961
XII – 1962-1963
XIII – 1963-1964
XIV – 1964-1965
XV – 1966-1967
XVI – 1967-1969
XVII – 1969-1970

Nurse duty record books and index

Two-volume set of records for individual nurses (contained in hard-backed binders) with accompanying typed alphabetical index of names. Each record includes dates of entry/departure, details of time spent on duty in different sections (Medical, Surgical, 'Special', and Night Duty), dates of holidays and sick leave, and sometimes dates of examination passes. The 'Special' column includes secondments to other hospitals in the St George's group, including Tite Street (Victoria Hospital for Children) and the Grove Hospital.

The date range for the volumes is 1949-1957, but the first contains an inserted copy of a reference from 1981.

Block registers

Registers of activity of student nurse 'blocks', including lists of attendance at lectures (with details of topics and lecturers), classes, tutorials, group work, film screenings, visits, etc., as well as lists of exam candidates and test marks. The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Feb 1951 – Jan 1953
Feb 1953 – May 1955
Jun 1955 – Sep 1957
Oct 1957 – Nov 1959
Nov 1959 – Dec 1961
Jan 1962 – Dec 1963
Feb 1963 – Apr 1966 ['1st year study block']
Jan 1964 – Nov 1965
Nov 1965 – Jun 1967
Jul 1966 – Dec 1969 ['1st year block, Jan '66 set']
Jun 1967 – May 1969
Apr 1969 – Dec 1971

Study Days registers

Two registers labelled 'Study Days' and a third labelled 'Study ½ Days' containing records of first year nursing students' attendance at lectures/tutorials (including details of subjects and names of lecturers) and lists of test and exam marks. The second register includes taped-in group work question sheets.

Particulars of Pupil Nurses

Three volumes recording 'particulars' of pupil nurses, including name, age, date of birth, address, source of recruitment (first volume only), religion, next of kin, education, index number, and dates of enrolment, assessment and leaving. The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

1955-1968 [this volume is labelled 'Pupil Nurse Training Register, S.W.17', and includes fewer details than the other two, but duplicates some of their contents]
Sep 1960 – Aug 1963
Sep 1963 – Aug 1966 [note on cover states 'Discontinued. Entries on cards only thereafter']

Pupil nurse course registers

Registers of pupil nurses' (initially referred to as pupil assistant nurses) lecture/class attendance and assessment. All of the registers from 1968 onwards (and two of the earlier ones: those beginning Jul 1959 and Mar 1964) include pasted/taped-in black and white class photographs, annotated with names, and sometimes other documents including timetables, test papers, and results lists. The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Apr 1955 – Aug 1958
Mar 1956 – Apr 1959
Sep 1958 – Apr 1961
Jul 1959 – Sep 1963
Apr 1961 – Mar 1962
Mar 1962 – May 1964
Mar 1964 – Mar 1968
Aug 1964 – Feb 1967 [includes inserted lists of lectures attended at St Benedict's Hospital, Tooting]
Jul 1965 – Feb 1968 ['St Benedict's Pupils / Putney Pupils': specifically relates to pupil nurses on secondment to St George's from St Benedict's and Putney hospitals, a practice which stopped in 1967 'owing to re-grouping']
Sep 1965 – Mar 1967
Sep 1966 – Mar 1967
Mar 1967 – Jan 1969
Aug 1968 – Mar 1969
Sep 1968 – Oct 1971
Aug 1970 – Aug 1973
Feb 1972 – Oct 1973
Feb 1974 – Jun 1975
Sep 1975 – Aug 1978 [some of the pupils are from Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton]
Sep 1977 – Apr 1979 [some of the pupils are from Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton]
Apr 1981 – Feb 1983
Oct 1981 – Feb 1984
Jul 1982 – Feb 1984
Oct 1982 – Aug 1984
Apr 1983 – Feb 1985
Oct 1984 – Oct 1986
Oct 1985 – Aug 1987

Experimental course registers

Registers relating to the 'New Experiment in Nursing Education', aka the 'experimental course', which ran for a few years in the mid-1960s, and attempted to give the nursing curriculum a more systematic theoretical foundation based on the human life course (paediatrics, obstetrics, geriatrics, etc). It subsequently evolved into the '2+1' course (see NU/1/1/21).

The registers record student attendance at lectures, tutorials, visits, clinical conferences, study days, etc (including psychiatric nursing training at Atkinson Morley and West Park hospitals), as well as examination results. The date ranges and titles of the registers are as follows:

Nov 1965 – Sep 1967 ['New Experiment in Nursing Education']
Sep 1966 – Apr 1968 ['Record of Nursing Tutorials – Experimental Course']
Nov 1966 – Jul 1968 ['New Experiment in Nursing Education: Group II']
Nov 1967 – Oct 1969 ['Experimental Course']

2 + 1 course registers

Registers relating to the 2 + 1 course for student nurses. The 2 + 1 course was an extension of the 'experimental course' trialled in the mid-1960s (see NU/1/1/20): it involved a condensed two years of training followed by an intern year leading to registration. According to the oral history interview with Joan Clague (Chief Nursing Officer at the time: see NU/7/2/1), 'from the Autumn of ’69… the whole intake for registration went over to the 2 + 1', including graduate entrants. As it became the default pathway for students, the term '2 + 1' is not used consistently in the registers, and seems to have been gradually phased out by the 1980s (as course lengths continued to be experimented with for different student streams, e.g. '118 week course' and '166 week course').

The registers contain records of student attendance and assessment for different sections of the course (paediatrics, medicine, surgery, obstetrics, psychiatry, neurosurgery, etc), including placements at other hospitals (see name access points for list); they generally have additional typed documents (timetables, lecture lists, exam questions, allocation lists, etc) taped in. A majority also contain class photographs; Some also contain photographs and lists of student details/qualifications. The date ranges are as follows:

Sep 1969 – Oct 1971 [bulging with taped-in notes/documents – spine has cracked]
Mar 1970 – Feb 1972 [oversize; includes photograph]
Sep 1970 – Apr 1971 ['2 + 1 students: Sept 1970 set, Stage I']
Mar 1971 – Aug 1972 ['Mar 1971 Entry + Revision'; oversize; includes photograph]
Apr 1971 – Oct 1972 ['2 + 1 students: Sept 1970 set, Stage II']
Sep 1971 – Oct 1973
Sep 1974 – Aug 1982 [register of completion dates for candidates, but reverse of book also contains lists of applications relating to student residence (?), 1967-1972; cover is detached]
Mar 1977 – Oct 1979
Sep 1979 – Jul 1982
Nov 1979 – Jan 1981
Jul 1980 – Jul 1983
Apr 1981 – Sep 1984
Jul 1982 – May 1985
Oct 1984 – Oct 1987
Sep 1985 – Sep 1988

Paediatric course registers

Registers relating to the post-registration paediatric course leading to the title of RSCN (Registered Children's Nurse). The registers contain student details, records of attendance and assessment (including remarks on individual performance), details of the course curriculum, and test questions.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

May 1965 – May 1970 [cover is detached; contains a typed 'suggested programme' for the course]
Sep 1970 – Oct 1971
Apr 1971 – Jun 1973

St George's General Students registers

Group of registers labelled 'St George's General Students' (and occasionally 'Mental Health Students') containing records of student training and leaving dates. Note that despite the St George's label, they also contain lists of students from or seconded to other affiliated hospitals, including St James', Bolingbroke, Springfield, South London, and Netherne; this reflects the increasing integration of training across hospital sites after the NHS reorganisation of 1974. Also, by the end of the period covered by these registers, St George's nurse training had been amalgamated first with Roehampton and then Kingston University.

The date ranges for the volumes are as follows:

1974-1978 [a handwritten note inside this register states 'Not St George's', and a pencil addition identifies it as 'St James'': indeed this volume mostly seems to relate to St James' nurses, but it has been retained here as it was retroactively absorbed into the 'St George's General' series]
1979-1981 [contains inserted item of correspondence from former student (1989) and later printout of list of students]
1982-1983 ['General Students and Pupils']
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990 ['St George's General & Mental Students'; includes item of correspondence from Springfield Hospital about reorganisation of acute admissions beds]
1992
1993 [contains copies of letter advertising 'Nursing Ethics' journal]
1994 [contains item of correspondence about ward closure at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton]
1994-1995 ['Mental Health Students']
1995

Neonatal unit registers

Square-format registers relating to training at St George's Neonatal Unit, specifically on the 'Special and Intensive Nursing Care of the Newborn' course.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Apr 1984 – Apr 1987
Sep 1989 – Dec 1992
Jan 1993 – Jun 1994

Examination registers

Set of three registers containing pasted-in exam papers for senior and junior nurses, followed by handwritten lists of results and examiners' reports

Lecture registers

Two registers (for 1930-1944 and 1945-1951) of nurses' attendance at lectures and revision classes, including details of topics and names of lecturers

Student nurse record cards

Loose record cards (Roneodex brand) containing the following information about individual student nurses: name, address, age, marital status, father's profession, previous experience, religion, date of entry, dates of leave, wards worked in, brief Sisters' reports, and sometimes final reports upon leaving and details of subsequent employment. Some of the cards have additional documents attached (copies of reciprocity forms/references, transcripts, and related correspondence).

The cards relate to c. 977 nurses who entered St George's in the 1940s and 1950s, though some of the attached documents date from as late as the 1970s and 1980s. They have been sorted alphabetically by (married) name: cards were manually updated and refiled under the new surname when nurses married.

Class room registers

Group of three registers, the second and third of which are labelled 'Class Room (Pupils) Register / Kingston County Hospital' (a label which also seems to apply to the first, though it is unlabelled) containing records of pupil nurse (? - it is unclear if the pupil/student distinction is being made here) training, with alphabetical indexes at the front. Each record includes the following information: name, age, date of entry/leaving, dates and results of examinations, remarks, and number of lectures attended (broken down by subject).

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

1936-1941
1941-1947
1947-1952 [some later items of correspondence have been inserted]

Pupil midwife registers

Registers relating to pupil midwives at Kingston Hospital. The registers take various formats: some record lecture attendance and topics studied; some record details of clinic experience and lists of births at which the pupils assisted; and the remainder (the registers with marbled covers and alphabetical indexes at the front) record personal details of individual pupils, including name, rank, home address, date of birth, date of entry/leaving, religion, training schools and certificates, experience since training, and remarks.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

May 1941 – Oct 1952 ['Doctors' Lectures to Pupil Midwives']
Jul 1950 – Oct 1953
Oct 1953 – Oct 1959 [continuation of previous register]
Jul 1953 – Jan 1957 [a loose page from a different lecture register dating from 1952 has been inserted at the front]
Jan 1957 – Apr 1960
Jan 1960 – May 1965
Apr 1960 – Apr 1963
Jan 1961 – Oct 1968
Jan 1966 – Oct 1968
Jul 1968 – Jan 1974
Oct 1968 – Mar 1971
Oct 1973 – Mar 1977
Aug 1976 – Dec 1978 [cover has become slightly sticky]
Nov 1981 – Oct 1984 ['Kingston Hospital Midwifery School 18-Month Training, Nov 1981 Set']
Nov 1983 – Sep 1986 [note that by this time the title 'pupil midwife' had been replaced with 'student midwife']

Examination registers

Registers relating to nursing (and in some cases midwifery) examinations at Kingston. The registers take a variety of formats: some record only lists of names with pass or failure; some include details of individual marks; and some include lists of exam questions or copies of printed exam papers.

The date ranges (and titles) of the volumes are as follows:

Apr 1940 – Jun 1960 ['Training of Midwives – Part II / General Nursing Council Examination Results']
Jun 1955 – May 1977 ['Record of State Examinations']
Apr 1964 – Apr 1977 ['Pupils' Question Book' – includes handwritten questions and taped-in exam paper]
Aug 1968 – Sep 1989 ['Record of Hospital Examinations' – includes taped-in results lists]
Jan 1970 – Jun 1977
Nov 1975 – Aug 1979 ['Pupil Hospital Assessments']
Aug 1976 – Feb 1988 [includes inserted exam papers]
Jun 1981 – Aug 1991 [contents of ring binder labelled 'Examination / Assess Results']
Aug 1986 – Mar 1991 ['Written examination for student nurses in general nursing conducted by the Kingston & Esher College of Nursing']

Lecture registers

Registers labelled 'Lectures Register'/'Register of Lectures' containing records of lecture/tutorial attendance with details of lecturers and subjects studied.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Nov 1955 – Jun 1966 ['Complete Lecture Register (in Block Rotation) […] not including Practical Nursing']
Sep 1966 – May 1970
Jul 1968 – Nov 1978 ['Jan 1968 School Register of Lectures, Courses 2 to 6'; also includes list of ward name changes at back of volume]
Nov 1968 – Jan 1971 ['Apr 1968 School Register of Lectures, Courses 2 to 6']
Sep 1975 – Aug 1978 ['Sep 1975 School Register of Lectures']
Jan 1976 – Feb 1978 ['Pupil Nurses: Jan 1976 Register of Lectures'; also includes timetable and list of exam results]

Registers of Nurses

Set of hardback registers mostly labelled 'Kingston Hospital School of Nursing: Register of Nurses' (the last two are just labelled 'Student Nurses', but their format is similar) containing individual records of nurse training, with alphabetical indexes at the front. Each record includes the following information: name, age/date of birth, date of entry/leaving, index number, examination results, remarks, ward allocations, and number of lectures/tutorials attended (broken down by subject). A few later items of correspondence relating to references have been inserted.

The date ranges of the volumes (by date of student entry) are as follows:

Feb 1957 – Feb 1961
Feb 1961 – Jan 1964
Jan 1964 – Aug 1966
Aug 1966 – Jan 1969
Jan 1969 – Dec 1972
Jan 1971 – Apr 1972
Apr 1972 – Apr 1973

Student nurse course registers

Registers relating to student nurse training from the 1970s onwards, including a mixture of hardback attendance/ward experience registers and card files; the latter also contain various additional documents, including class photographs, timetables, test papers, and correspondence.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Hardback registers (Box 36):
Jan 1970 – Mar 1978
Jan 1974 – Nov 1981 [labelled 'Student Nurse General' on cover, but 'Kingston Pupil Nurses' inside cover]
Sep 1978 – Aug 1985
May 1980 – Jan 1983
Jul 1982 – Dec 1988 ['RGN Student Nurses']
Aug 1985 – Jan 1991
Jan 1988 – Dec 1993

File registers (Box N18):
Feb 1977 – Jun 1980 ['Feb 1977 Register of Courses']
Sep 1977 – Mar 1980 ['Sep 1977 Student Nurses Register']
Feb 1978 – Jul 1981 ['Feb 1978 Student Nurses Register']
Sep 1978 – Jun 1981 ['Sep 1978 Student Nurses Register']
Feb 1979 – Mar 1981 ['Feb 1979 Student Nurses Register']
Sep 1979 – Sep 1982 [folder enclosing a sub-folder labelled 'Sep 1979 Register of Courses']

Pupil nurse course registers

Registers relating to pupil nurse training from the 1970s onwards, including a mixture of hardback attendance/ward experience registers and card files; the latter also contain various additional documents, including class photographs, timetables, test papers, and correspondence.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Hardback registers (Box 3):
Oct 1971 – Mar 1985
Jun 1972 – Oct 1982
Apr 1987 – Dec 1990

File registers (Box N18):
May 1976 – Feb 1978
Oct 1976 – Jul 1978
Nov 1976 – Jul 1978
May 1977 – Jan 1979
Nov 1977 – Jun 1979
Feb 1978 – Jun 1979
May 1978 – Feb 1980
Oct 1978 – Sep 1980 [includes photograph]
Mar-Apr 1979
Nov 1979 – Jul 1981
Feb 1980 – Jul 1981 [includes copies of patient notes]
Oct 1980 – Mar 1982 ['Oct 1980 Pupils: General File'; includes photographs]
Oct 1980 – Jan 1982 ['Oct 1980 Record of Study Blocks']
Oct-Nov 1981 ['Part-time Pupils']

Royal Hospital student nurse registers

Registers of student nurse records, including the following information: name, index number, age/date of birth, date of entry/leaving, address, education, religion, previous experience, number of lectures attended, and exam results.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Nov 1939 – Jan 1956 [includes later items of correspondence relating to references]
Jan 1956 – Oct 1960 [incorrectly labelled with start date of 1953]
Feb 1961 – Jan 1965 [incorrectly labelled with end date of 1963]

Surbiton pupil nurse registers

Registers relating to pupil nurses at Surbiton General Hospital. The registers take various formats, but generally record the following information: name, date of birth, index number, address, next of kin, previous training, date of preliminary training school, and date of assessment/completion. Additional typed pages listing dates of ward experience have been taped in, and later items of correspondence relating to references have been inserted.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Sep 1961 – Oct 1968
Jan 1965 – Sep 1972 ['Nurses in Training' – attendance register with details of lectures/study days]
Oct 1968 – Apr 1973
Jan 1972 – Sep 1974
May 1974 – Sep 1975

Royal Hospital loose training records: 1946-1956

Loose training record forms (originally stored in a ring binder), arranged alphabetically by surname and separated with alphabetical dividers. Each record contains the following information: name, age/date of birth, address, religion, date training commenced/ended, index number, dates of ward work and leave, and remarks. A few later items of correspondence relating to references have been inserted between the records.

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