Feliciana sentinel., 1892-08-06
WORLDS FAIR CITY.
An Important Institution of the
Great Metropolis.

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The Illinois Training School for Nnrs<s
and the Good 1t Accompiishes-
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In these busy days. when. everyone
crowds,to the front as, rapidly as ability
and circumstances, will permit, when
everyone elbows his own horn because
no ode else wfIldo itf6r him, it is b relief
TO beAhle to.point to class of people
Who. work a uietly, and unassumingly,
whom none but the sick and the unfor.
tunate over hear about or come ip CO..
tact with; who, 'nS Svertheless, nehese
untold Dfsory save many lives and
make Others, enturablc;' sin short, do an
incalculable amount ofjaood. and do it
in such way as to touch everyone
where he is most tender. l have
in mind the trained nurses and espe-
cially those Of the Illinois Training
School for Nurses. While wish pros
perity to them l cannot conscientious
ly wish that they may have plenty OF
work to do. Especially when fears are
beginning to be entertained that the
cholera may visit us again, such wish
would sound inhuman.
One cannot appreciate the benefits,
the rare comfort, that a patient derives
from the attendance OF Il trained nurse
unless one has been fortunate or un-
fortunate enough to be i'll and experi-
ence it oneself. 1t is true that the
presence of friends or relatives is
agreeable during illness at times. But
only at times. In most cases 1T does
more harm than good. What patient
wants. ahove. Au.~ generally. is rest
Many a patient has suffered from the
attentions of friends while wishing at
heart to be left alone to rest. More
valuable, then, to the recovery and
comfort of patient is proper, attend
ance the ability of the attendant to
discern ones wants, which the patient
himself is often incapable Of, that judg-
ment which will Indicate when rest is
needed and when the mental faculties
should be engaged. Some intelligent
appreciation of the physicians direc-
/ tionS is also requisite.
How seldom do you find these qualiti-
, cations in your own family! 1t is a
| strange thing that even intelligent per-
sons of average education seem to lose
their reasoning powers when IN the
presence of disease and a doctor. They
either pay no attention to medical
direction or on the other hand, carry it
| out mechanically and without apparent
cxertion of their understanding.
! A p},ysisian Of my acansintaneu roid
me a sad instance of the latter frame
Of mind. He was treating patient for
/ well, it is imnaterial for what. The
pnticut had no rest for several nights.
SO the physician prescribed an opiate
and left directions. to give a certain
,Slna, thi II U
that sufficient direction. In the morn
ing he came back and found the patient
fast asleep and breathing heavily. He
tried to awaken him. hut could not. lie
| called the two sons who had Eeen attend
ing the patient and asked them what
they had done. 1t appeared that they lad
given the oriate, and, thinking the pa
, ticnt had to take it every hour, awak'
cned him after he had gone to sleep, and
gave it to him. and, finally, they said
they mad to work over, him for long
time before they could wake him w
sufficiently to make him take the med
| icinc. ..s ..,rs .fs 80 &C.,.
Then You have killed your father.
the physician said. And SO it turned
out to bc-r,,.,, -.-.,-.,f 81 .7.,-s ..ty
/ The iideaa of love in a cabin, is pretty
but it takes something practical to livt
on So the idea of love at the bedside
of the sick is very pretty, bat it re
Guires something more practical. Ant
it is this that the trained nurse supplies
do not mean to say that there IS NJ
love in their case. l imagine, rather
that it requires considerable amoun
of love of humanity to devote ones 1if'
to that kind of service. But it is bc
cause of the need of knowledge and cx
| .,f. don that | q m nh =
size the word trained" nurse.
The Illinois Training School for Nurse
is an organization originally char
liable, but taking small fee now 70
instruction. Women and girls ar
taken4 and, have to pass through
course Of two YEARS OF study and prac
tice. They are instructed in the ele
mcnts of anatomy and medicine. path
ology, surgery, and the other. branchc
| necessary for an intelligent compre
hension. of the nature of diseases.
OF course, they do not learn thes
things so thoroughly as physicia
would. They acquire a general know
edge of them. And would like to ado
that "A general knowledge does not.
properly impaired. mean a superficia
:, acquaintance with great many detail
of Il science, but. as John. Stuart Mi
says. a thorough knowledge of the gel
;, eral principlcs of a science. upo
the basis, of these principles tn
acquisition of the "Details becomes a
: easy matter. But the greatest part c
! the education of these trained nurse
' is the experience they get in trcatin
:, | patients. The school has charge {
twelve wards in the Cook county ho
: pital and entire charge OF the nursin
in the Prcsby terian hospital Bot
: these institutions lie within fe'
| blocks of the home of the school, sThic
d is located at No. 3o4 Houore street, nea
e Ogden avenue. Here the instruction
S given and many OF, the nurses live. there
They are sent from there to the tw
y hospitals mentioned, where they nurs
g the patients free of charge, eSceE
l. where one desires a special nurse Th