St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-29
Training II urseS.
Washington Star,

| Lie SCllOOl lOI uulSCo 10 Ill o. llbtlO
red brick building at the corner of 18th and
f streets, partially over store. A light
shines above the transOm at all hours OF the
night 1t is there where women, young,
middle aged and elderly, are taught to be
gentle and kind and to administer to the
wants of the sick, relieving. as far pos
sible, the pains of suffering humanity,
| Women who wish to devote their lives to
nursing the sick are taught all tits necessary
| for a good nurse to know. and the sick are
| there furnished with careful nurses or in
| formed where they may find them. Stran-
gers who are taken ill at hotels or boarding
houses, away from home and friends. there
find in stock the tenderness OF mother or
wife, accompanied with the experience
and knowledge of physician, upon which
they may draw in case OF need. They are
taught to take away the terror OF sick bed
in strange place.
OThe school was established in 1877 by
members of the medical society, with the
cooperation of several benevolent ladies in
Washington. The object is to train nurses
so that they can go out and care for the sick,
taking the place of mothers and wives when
they are absent or performing the duties
that these natural nurses do not always I'M
derStand. A regular course of instruction is
given and lectures are delivered by promi-
nent members of the medical fraternity
each season, commencing in October, and
necessary instructions extend into medicine
and surgery sufficiently to give them
knowledge of how to care for the i'll in all
cases and to supplement the work of the
physicians. The course OF training extends
through two years, and the students in
training are taken into the hospitals for eX-
perience. The instructions are all free to
those DESTROYS of becoming nurses. the OBJ
ject of the institution being merely to in
crease the number of trained nurses.
TALK WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT.
''Thus far" the superintendent said to a
reporter, mo men have applied for adj
mittance to the school. There are about
thirty students, ranging in age from 30
to As, some married and some single. The
most of them seek this field of labor as
means of making a living, though prob
ably many have natural taste for it. l
| don't know that there is much romance
about it. though that may enter in some
times, but there is much that is pathetic,
| and a great deal more that is practical.
| There are comparatively few persons un-
| trained who know how TO care for the sick,
and when person is stricken down, away
from home and friends. the presence of a
careful, trained nurse, who will be gentle
and kind, and care for one, is a blessing that
you must feel the need of to appreciate.
| We have young and middle-aged ladies who
are studying to become professional nurses
| When they graduate they are hired to care
| for the sick at hospitals, in private houses,
and at hotels. We keep directory-this is
the directory office as well as training
| schoOl-and can find nurses. when needed
at any hour of the night or day. Several of
| the best nurses live here when they are not
engaged, and we have the address and all
particulars concerning those who live else
| where. There are eighty-three names on
the register, and there have been fourteen
| graduates from this school, ten of whom are
| in practice. Illustrated lectures are given
every Monday and Friday during the sea-
son, beginning in October. The branches
in which they are instructed are simple, but
| very necessary to the training of a good
| nurse"
WHAT THE STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT.
1.-THE students are taught" continued the
lady, lin the dressing Of blisters burns
sores, and wounds; the application of
lamentations, poultices, and minor dress
ings; the application and management OF
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the use of the hypodermic syringe; the keep
ing of records of the temperature. pulse. and
respiration; the best method of applying
friction to the body and extremeties: the
management of helpless patients. moving
and changing; giving baths; preventing and
dressing bed-sores and regulating positions;
making bandages and rollers; bandaging;
making patients beds and changing bedding
with least possible disturbance to the in
valid; the preparation of nice articles of
diet and the best methods of feeding the
sick, and how to keep the sick room clean
and properly ventilated"
do other than those who expect to he
come professional nurses attend the
lectures?" asked the reporter.
Eyes. The lectures are free to the nurses.
but there is small charge for such persons
as do not intend to enter the profession.
There are many ladies with families who do
not know what to do when anybody is taken
sick in the house. Many women who want
to make good wives and mothers attend
lectures, so that they may understand the
ordinary care of the sick when their duties
call them to the side of sick bed"