These papers give a glimpse of an era of nursing from 1961 to 1987 through the pen of one male nurse who first wrote as a district nurse and finally, as the chief nursing officer of the largest teaching health authority in the country.
Anthony Carr was a member of the advisory board of the Nursing Mirror for six years and Consulting Editor and a member of the Nursing Focus editorial board for five years.He published over a hundred papers in various professional journals. Those with highlights can be accessed by clicking on the title. All files are in pdf format. Papers numbers over one page in length are indicated.
The most researched paper is that on 'Smoking in Teenage Boys' in 1963. This paper has been quoted in more than 30 publications and appears to be the first paper written on the subject.
National Nursing Policies
- Report on the Education and Training of District Nurses. (1976) Chairman Anthony J Carr. Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training, Department of Health. The Report can be accessed in four parts as shown below:
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Part 1. Introduction, Contents, Role & Function of the District Nurse, Education & Training, Four Objectives of the Course, Entry requirements, Length of course, Plan of course, Examination procedure, Approval of Centres, Updating courses, Financial implications, Training of Enrolled Nurses, Review of proposals after three years. Summary of Recommendations.
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Part 2. Outline Curriculum, Detailed Curriculum to the Outline Curriculum – Objective 1.
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Part 3. Detailed Curriculum to the Outline Curriculum - Objectives 2, 3 & 4. List of Organisations submitting evidence.
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Part 4. Subjects submitted by Organsiations, Numbers & grades of nurses consulted by members of the Working Party in ad hoc working groups, List of Members of the Working Party.
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After the publication of this report Anthony toured various conferences and education centres to explain the changes about to take place in the education of District Nurses. Two texts of addresses given to specially convened conferences survive and are reproduced below.
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Text 1 is of a lecture given to all District Nurse Tutors hosted by the Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training at the Department of Health, London 8th March 1977. (8 pages)
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Text 2 is a copy of the address given at the Annual Open Meeting of the Queen's Nursing Institute held at the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, London 19th October 1977. (12 pages)
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First Press Comment on the above report
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Editorial on the Queen's Nursing Institute lecture, Nursing Mirror October 1977
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Editorial on the Queen's Nursing Institute lecture, Nursing Times October 1977
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Journal of Community Nursing January 1978
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