New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-08
TRAINED NURSES CLUB.
STRICT REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
AND MANY BENEFITS FOR
ACTIVE MEMBERS

inc clubhouse OF the Metropolitan Trained
Nurses is at No 1Oi West Forty-hrst-st There is
n country clubhouse at Tarrytown on t he- Hudson
inc city clubhouse has sleeping apartments
for fourteen nurses who must be club mem
bers. There is restaurant connected with
It, but resident nurses have permission to use the
kitchen and do light housekeeping The club
colors are blue and all the draperIes OF the sitting
room-curtains portieres. table-covers. etc.-are
In blue and white This color scheme is followed
In most OF the sleeping rooms but nurse has
adopted orange and black. the Princeton colors
for her room.
The reading-room contains a good selection Of
standard works and lighter reading II has
also magazines. newspapers and writing materials
Membership In this club is not confined to gradu-
ates OF New-YOrk hospitals or OF hospitals in
other cities Of the United States 1t includes grad
yates from English, Irish German and Swiss hos
pitals who resident I'm New-York. The
In the English hospitals is more exactng than in
hospitals I'm this country. There are few orderies
TO assist In the of male patients. and almost
all the duties that are assumed by orderlies here
fall to the They are also required
to sweep the floors and perform other mental du-
ties from which American nurses usually OK
empt The training throughout is very thorough.
The course is never less than three years. one
reason given by English nurses for coming 10 this
country Is the financial advantage Of doing.
In England the trained nurse rarely receives more
than So n month. The usual charge here is s25
a week.
The question OF modifying charges discussed
by the club at its last monthly business meeting
Employers sometimes complain that. besides the
S25 week. they have many additional expenses
for tho nurse-washlng. carfares, etc The Metro
politan Nurses Club IL considering the establish
ment OF a rule that for club members the weekly
salary shall cover all minor expenses This would
not include travelling expenses 10 a distance
which the employer would be expected to pay.
In addition 10 the business meetings. social meet
ips~G hold on
month The entertainment consists OF music, rect
tatons games or dancing after which retresh-
ments served.
trained nurses ,or the advancement or their pro.
fession and for social intercourse. ana TO ASSIST
physcans ana tnG nnssbe notice. Nurses NAV
be secured either at the clubhouse or at the home
bureau No u West Forty -second-st.
Nurses not eligible for membership uniess
they have diplomas from a training school OF a
large hospital The applicant must give me
Of three physicians In good standing ana OF
the hospitals of New York must have had six
months OF private nursing before her appllca ton
will be consdered The entrance lee Is 30 ana nres
dent and treasurer Of the club the directors are
Mrs NJ. II. Willard. Mrs John {. r. Gardner ana
Another association. The Trained Nurses United
Aid Society Of America. Is an enterprise OF Mrs
Willard and an outgrowth of the club: IL mas us
Forty second-st Its object Is 10 relieve members
who are detained from duty by illness or accident
and TO pay funeral heneht IN case Oh qpn ,,ns ~
IL hoped that eventually. by co-operation homes OF
rest pecuniary loans in case or temporary dls-
iress and pensions may be secured. The prenml"
nary ice is 81 Monthly dues are 20 cents In case
~ illness & n week will be paid for six weeks In
any consecutive twelve months ana lunerai o,I,,
eft of $50 Among the trustees OF TINS ASSOCIATION
pr Jdurrd p Fowler Lorillard Spencer, watts
Sherman and Henry Lewis Morris.