How to become a nurse : the nursing profession : how and where to train being a guide to training for the profession of a nurse ... is given / edited by Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B., K.C.V.O.

  • Burdett, Henry C., Sir, 1847-1920
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[1915?]
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    from the Fund by policy-holders for various purposes. That every nurse who has self-reliance and thrift can readily become a policy-holder is proved by the knowledge that in twenty-eight years nurses have paid into the Fund about £2,100,000 from their earnings, of which over .£1,900,000 remained to their credit at the end of 19.14. The difference represents the sum drawn out by nurses who have used the Fund as a savings bank. Every woman who contemplates becoming a nurse should make herself familiar with the scheme of the Pen¬ sion Fund. It is the nurses’ own fund ; it is the largest thrift agency for women workers the world possesses ; and all the arrangements, which are now perfected, have been conceived and carried out with the sole object of providing for every conceivable need which is likely to arise or pre¬ sent itself for solution to a nurse during the time of her working life and afterwards. A letter of request for particulars, enclosing a stamp for reply, addressed to the Secretary, Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses, 15 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., will enable anyone to obtain all the infor¬ mation she may need. Nurses and the National Insurance Act. Nurses, like other people, have had to insure under the National Insurance Act, and to enable them to do this, the Fund formed a “separate section” in the name of the Nurses’ Insurance Society through which the con¬ tributions required by the Act can be made. It is open to all women nurses whether they are members of the Pension Fund or not. In fact, any woman whose duty is that of attendance on the sick and suffering will be eligible to make application for membership. Men, whether they be nurses or not, are not accepted as members. P'ullest particulars on the subject may be obtained from the Secretary, Nurses' Insurance Society, 15 Buck¬ ingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.