Papers published in the Nursing Journals

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:
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.
Part 2. Outline Curriculum, Detailed Curriculum to the Outline Curriculum – Objective 1.
Part 3. Detailed Curriculum to the Outline Curriculum - Objectives 2, 3 & 4. List of Organisations submitting evidence.
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.
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.
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)
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)
First Press Comment on the above report
Editorial on the Queen's Nursing Institute lecture, Nursing Mirror October 1977
Editorial on the Queen's Nursing Institute lecture, Nursing Times October 1977
Journal of Community Nursing January 1978

Career Development

Christian faith

Clinical Subjects

Community & Social Health

Domiciliary care and after care Male Nurses Journ (1961) 84:19
Note: No known copy of this paper now exists.
First line of defence (1) Nursing Times (1979) 29:1209 (2 pages)
First line of defence (2) Nursing Times (1979) 30:1259 (2 pages)
Influence of the environment Nursing Mirror (1982) March 10 (3 pages)
Neighbourhood Nursing Senior Nurse (1987) 7:3 (2 pages)
Public Health Nurse The Society of Registered Male Nurses Ltd AGM Publication Sept 29-30 1961
The District Nurse in our society Nursing Times (1966) 4:108 (4 pages)
The fascinating future of District Nursing Journ of the Dist Nursing Assoc (1981) June (5 pages)
The place of the father in the mid-sixties Mother & Child (1965) Sept (2 pages)
The State Enrolled Nurse in the Community Journ of Community Nursing (1980) June (2 pages)

Education

Employment Issues

Justice is not seen to be done Nursing Mirror (1980) 8:14 (2 pages)
Part-time nurses dilemma Nursing Times (1966) 47:1544 (3 pages)

Financial

After Clegg- what next for nurses? Nursing Focus (1980) March (2 pages)
Budgeting in the reorganised NHS Nursing Focus (1981) Sept (3 pages)
Cost effective nursing Nursing Times (1978) 22:906 (3 pages)
Future funding of the NHS Nursing Focus (1982) December
Less money - Lower standards of care? Nursing Focus (1979) 3:149
Reduction in the working hours of nurses Nursing Focus (1980) May
Taking poll position Nursing Mirror (1981) Nov 4 (3 pages)
The 35 hour week - friend or foe? Nursing Focus (1981) Sept (6 pages) Repoduction is variable

General Subjects

Hospital Building

Commissioning a new general hospital Nursing Focus (1981) May (6 pages)
So you want to start a nursery? Nursing Times (1964) 24:778 (2 pages)

Industrial Relations

Leadership & Motivation

Management of People/Structures/Policy

Special occasional papers

Research

Blood sample survey Nursing Times (1970) Special occasional paper (2 pages)
Post-basic clinical courses Nursing Times (1967) 36: (2 pages)
Smoking Habits among nurses Nursing Times (1972) 22:672 (2 pages)
Smoking in teenage boys Nursing Times (1963) 35:1093 (2 pages)
Smoking in teenage girls Nursing Times (1965) 1:33 (2 pages)
Work load and staffing on night duty Nursing Times (1976) Special occasional paper (4 pages)

Selection of Staff

Check list for selection of staff Nursing Times (1972) 1 June (3 pages)
Reproduced in 1974 in book “Every Operating Room Supervisor Should Know (Denver: Association of Operating Room Nurses.)