Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-22
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YOUNG LADY NURSES.
s,oIcn Glimpse at Their Train
ing school i'm New York.

.rnpTlntenQeut VI OIlC NSH AOiA Training
ssrbool for Nnrses. For this reason, be.
o Cnso II is such formidable under
C .sI.inc the public have comparatively
i;,tIo knowledge OF one OF the most useful
Nv ia worthy of New York's many benef.
"u .ut institutions. Indeed, so lar as is
I gen, this will be the first description
~ over given to a newspaper. The ex-
1t.,,nalv elevated, not TO say stuck-up.
manages who are at the head thereof.
,,a sci their foot down that the inter-
l.+inc Young women nurses shan't get
;nto the newspapers. Whether this is
t Iona 10 keep down the pride of the Young
,romen. or TO bolster up the pride of the
I,5v managers and superintendent, isnot
Lain But in either case, ] hereby take
iisnari9l satisfaction in thwarting their in
,,ntions. People have a right to know
,,bot IS worth knowing.
Snlice to say, the New York TRAINING
c,bool for Nurses, as far as it has gone.
b9s wrought . revolution in sick attend
anca. 1t has given death-stab to the
Sgircv Camps and Betsy Priggs OF the
profession.
Florence Nightingale, of blessed es-
tom was the founder OF the idea OF a
nurses school. The New York institu-
ton was established eleven years ago by
thirteen benevolent women. 1t is di-
r,ctIv connected with the famous old
bellevue hospital on Twenty-siXth street.
In the wards of this great camp of ailing
humanity the girls get their Instructions.
Like Young doctors they practice on
charity patients preliminary to undertake
inc those who pay. AT the bedside OF
the patient they are given lectures on how
totake care OF sick persons. The course
Of instruction is two years long. 1t. in
cudes everything pertaing to the care of
humanity out OF health, from cleaning
and disinfecting d sick room and its be-
Ioogings to stopping a hemOrrhage and
preparing diet. The instruction is given
by the hospital doctors, who are men,
and by the superintendent, assistant sup
quntendent and head nurses of the
school, who are women. BY reference
70 the last report one perceives that dur
inc the past year the young ladies were
iyen twenty lectures by learned medical
professors on surgery, diseases, etc.-the
whole OF twenty-which is a trifle over
one lecture in three weeks. 1t is pleas
ing to know, perhaps, that there is no
immediate danger OF the young women
being crammed to death intellectually.
The school admits only siXty-iOur
pupils, and it is always full. Application
for vacancy must be made months be-
iorehand 1t is always in session, and
pupils are received at any time when
there is vacancy. The sixty-four girls
live in a snug home, which has been
built for them opposite the college Here
they must stay for two years, except
when they 60 out nursing private
PATENTS. To be received they must be of
perfect physical health, good moral
character, be acquainted with reading,
Writing, arithmetic. and have, besides,
general "gumption" enough to take notes
Of the lectures they hear. They must
also know how to read aloud well, which
4 every woman ought to do, whether a
rrse or not. . ..s- S.. RI
The above is all that is absolutely re-
red Of applicants in the way OF edu
on. But it has been. found that the
zr the education of 4 woman the bet
2 nurse she makes. There are such
-ongs of applicants, too, that con-
lierable room for choice is given the
. Werintendent IN their selection. Other
Y things being equal, the preference is al
Eys given to the woman with the best
earning. So that here, as. everywhere
Else, higher education for woman pays.
The acceptable age for a candidate is
from twenty-five. to thilay-five In put
TIM the age so well along the manage
ment show their wisdom, and have al
ways contended that girls have precious
little common sense before they are
twenty-five. The precocious develop
ment of intellect in girls is one Of the
Nperstitionst that will have to 90, along
with planting turnip seed in the moon.
The average girl of eighteen does not be-
gin to have the practical use OF her brains
that a boy Of the same age does, and L
DEFY anybody to prove it is otherwise.
4 So there.
The training school, at home and in the
hospital, is pervaded by an air of strict;
not to say stiff, propriety. To a visitor
with the sense Of humOr there will be
Heaven forgive me for saying it! but
there will be-conveyed an impression
& Ola good deal OF solemn hmnbug. Not
IN the training OF the nurses or in the
good they do after they are trained. BY
omeans That is real enough and
thorough from inside out, and too much
cannot be said in its praise.
The solemn humbug comes in IN the
way OF petty and p0mpous airs on the
S part OF some OF those who manage the es-
Enlistment. There is a superior female
atmosphere about the thing that is m
lntey amusing Even the elderly per-
/. ION on guard somewhere about the door
u the house gathers three fallen pine
needles upon the tip Of her dustpan with
hS superior female air. There is no
Ioubt but the graduates who have lis
tAed to twenty medical lectures year
Il soout OF the school tremendously inn
PRESSED that they are a peg or two higher
rd more learned than the rest o woman
AAa. They cannot well magnify the
Importance and worth OF their work. On
Ie other hand, it is very easy for people
magnify themselves. But this IS re-
suoic, where one person is as good rs
-uyol,ner, and where ones duty IS to be
s o.Ie and gentle to all. This fact should
oI De lost sight Of Not referring to
N ody IN particularly
me pupil nurses have nothing to COM
s,a'l Oh IN the terms .under which they
N received. They are required TO give
4en time to their work and instruc-
"a, except that necessary 10 rest ana
,iI5aton, during the two years they are
Tr ~I II tuition. But they receive IN re-
r~yneir living expenses. Besides that
set 50 a month during the first year
n5 1sAdance and S15 a month the see7
ra :!T T%f. During the second year they
r'o%ed to be sent into private faml-
+ requiring nurses. Whisiis one source
0 income ONE to the school.
Lar5 % iiIst arriving as the Institution each
n m'.l%'e who has been accepted is taken
t,siln on probation. In that time III
ar,I med whether she is good tenn
~ enOngh n,nd nahnr,rish -ntnlnMnd