Introductory course - care for the elderly

Jacqueline Fernell is Senior Lecturer for Pre-Registration Nursing at the University of Worcester's Institute of Health and Society. R2015.001.0003 #nursing #histmed #GMMedicalMuseum transcript: "In their ‘Introductory Course’ as it was then called, rather than PTS, we taught them all the sort of essential skills of nursing, the anatomy and physiology . […] Um the students all went up to New Town, which hadn’t been open that long at that point in time, and that was ‘Care of the Elderly’, or it was still called ‘Geriatrics’ back in those days. And that had 4 wards and we would take them up there to teach them bed baths and making beds and that sort of thing." (c) Charles Hastings Education Centre