The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-17
A School for Nurses.

There are three great training schools fol
nurses In New York, at Bellevue, the Char
ity and the New York Hospitals. AT Bel.
levue, nine wards Of the hospitals arc us.
signed to the use of the school. The course
OF training Is thorough one. Besides
bedside instruction from the house staff and
lectures from the surgeons and physicians
| on points connected with the care of the
sick, lessons in bandaging and the cooking
OF invalid fare arc given, and constant
practice in the nursing of surgical and med
ical cases is kept up. The board, lodging
and washing OF course is provided. Two
years Is the term Of service, the first being
devoted to training and the second TO prac-
tlcai nursing, either as head nurses or as
attendants 10 private cases outside the hos
pital. Ten dollars month is paid the iirsl =,
and SIG the second year. T!r charges for
outside nursing 90 to the hospital, which Is
always ready to furnish private invalids with
nurses on reasonable terms. The Charity
Hospital school is under the authority of
the Commissioners of Charities and Correc-
ton. The instruction is in special forms
OF medical and surgical nursing, the term
of tuition the same as that at Bellevue, and
the pay ten and fifteen dollars a month,
with board and washing. Pupils must be
over twenty and under thirty-tive years old,
and must present with their applications
for instruction certificates of moral and
physical soundness from responsible cti-
zen and doctor. Services in the wards of
the hospital and the lying-in wards of the
Maternity Hospital, and lectures On the
various branches of nursing form the curri-
culum. Frequent examinations arc held
by the chief of staff of Charity Hospital.
At the expiration of the second year, dplo-
mas arc given to those qualified. 'hc same
course of practical instruction, extending
over the same length Of time, is given at
the New York Hospital. There are, too,
elementary lessons IN anatomy, physiology
and hygiene. One month of each year
must be spent in the kitchen and one in the
laundry. The instructions in the kitchen
consist OF plain cooking and all the varie-
tics OF special diet, from gruels up. That
i'll the laundry comprises plain and fancy
washing and ironing. Competent chiefs in
each department act rs tutors. AT the end
OF the first year second class Is formed,
and tho nurses of the first class become
heads of the wards for next year. An cx-
ANIMATION and diploma end the term. The
classes are limited to twelve students each,
OF from twenty to thirty years DID, in good
health and with fair English education.
Certificates OF character are also in rule.
Applications for admission to the New York
Hospital school are made to the board
Tue lady Superintendent has charge OF that
department for Bellevue, and chief Of staff
OF the Charity Hospital passes on applicants
1or That course whom, OH approval, he turns
over to the Board Of Commissioners for final
Endorsement. Medical men speak in the
highest terms of these schools and their
systems of instructions, and they are said
to have done incalculabe good in raising
what was up to a few years ago mere
trade to the level of an honorable and use
f'il business, or rather profession.