The herald., 1897-10-06
THE TRAINED NURSE
OPENING EXERCISES OF THE
TRAINING SCHOOL
Practical Counsel Given by Medical
Men to the Sisters of the Red
Cross

The opening exercises for the session
of 1897 and 1898 of the training school fol
nurses were held last evening in the lee
| ture room of the medical college or
Buena Vista street. A long line of youn G
women attired in neat blue and white
striped gingham gowns, spotless aprons
/ and dainty white caps seated around the
room with a few friends composed the
audience
| DR.. Walter Lindley, president of the
board of trustees, presided and pre-
sented the first speaker of the evening,
Dr. George l.. Cole, who gave an infor-
NAL practical talk to the class.
The speaker said that when the propo-
sition was first made to him of esta b.
fishing a training school for nurses in
Los Angeles he discouraged the project.
thinking that the field here was full to
overf1owing. The class that had gone
out from the training school last year
had proved that there is wide field here
and yet room for more. He then con-
trasted the work done by nurses in the
county hospital ten years ago with that
of today, and declared there could be
no comparison DR.. Cole called atten-
tion to the opportunity afforded the
nurse to do noble work for humanity
in ministering to the unfortunate in the
county hospital He said great praise
was due the board of lady managers,
many of whom were busy women in
other lines. but had done, so much in
establishing the training school and were
active in it's interest. He counseled the
class to take pleasure in the higher mo-
tives of the profession rather than work.
ing for mere financial gain.
The qualifications for a successful
nurse, he said, are tact in dealing with
the sick. perseverance, faithfuln ess-
these must be inherent. Those to be ac-
quired are knowledge avoidance of hob
bies, high aim and an ambition to learn
everything to be known about nursing.
DR., Lindley then presented DR.. Joseph
Kurtz, who supplemented the remarks
of DR.. Cole. DR.. Kurtz said he presumed
the class was prepared to enter the
sisterhood of the Red Cross, the nobless
order in the universe. Next to the med
ical profession none reached the heads
and hearts of the people so closely as the
nurse. Hard work is necessary to nj
the nurse for her profession, not only
in the. two years of the training course
but during all the years that follow. He
counseled the class to be kind and pleas
ant to patients, obedient to directions,
never neglectful, for on tritie often de-
pends the life of patient.
Dr. Lindley followed in suggestions on
the same line. Accuracy, tact quietness,
honor, are essential to
success in the chosen profession.
Each speaker illustrated his points
with incidents and tories, we'll told ard
entertaining. DR.. Lindley said he and
Mrs. Lindley had visited nine different
training schools in the past few weeks
and none had they seen with finer ma
teral nor superior training to that OF
the college training school of Los An
geles
The ladies taking the course are the
following, in the county hospital senior
class:
Misses Florence Fish, Mary Hart,
Louise Kavenaugh, Ethel Mcfarland,
Ethel Prosiae, Louise Walling. Alberta
Spear; Junior class, Misses Lulu Smith
Jennie Kinney. Helen. Lyman, Alice
Ware, Ila Lee, Alice Thatcher, Mrs |
Vaughn; in the Good Samaritan hos
pital, Misses Thomas. Caldwell, Burton. |
Bolman, Swisher. Steel, PAIL, Chase, |
Mrs. Stephens; DR.. Lindley's hospital, |
Sixth street, Misses Rebecca Alberts, |
S. E. Neill, Althea f. Clarke, r. J. Eber~
le, Sergeant, Lillian Simpson, Genevra
Inman