Industrial Nursing, for Industrial, Public Health, and Pupil Nurses, and for Employers of Labor (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter xi the industrial nurse and the employment office records Employment management offers a field of service for women in which their peculiar fitness is being increasingly recognized. It is an opportunity for the nurse who has had experience in industry. Close connection with the "hiring and firing" of a large establishment, and personal interviews with applicants for employment--with the nurse's opportunities for getting a full home, health, work and educational picture of the worker--and a system of interviewing all who leave, will reveal much avoidable inefficiency with consequent lessening of production. Causes for the dissatisfaction of employes are found and resulting needless "labor turnover" is reduced. Employment managers throughout the country are succeeding in reducing this labor turnover and in increasing the efficiency and contentment of the workers, so benefiting both them and the industry. Nurses, as well as other educated women, are filling such positions and should continue to fill them in increasing numbers, especially in the industries where many women and girls are employed. Service in the employment office, either as manager or as assistant manager, is a logical development of the earlier and better known contributions of the nurse to industrial welfare. Her earlier contacts with industry aid her, if she is otherwise prepared for her new duties, in becoming an employment manager of exceptional value. Courses of study in preparation for this work are being offered in several colleges. Lacking a special theoretical training, a nurse, serving an apprenticeship in a well-managed and successful employment department as assistant or otherwise, would gain an insight into the necessary proce...