The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-07

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Ever Graduated from Hospital.
Eight young women, bright eyed,
wide awake, and all in the first hush
of budding womanhood, were last even
ing graduated from the training school
for nurses attached to the Moses Tay-
lor hospital. The graduates were: Miss
Grace Matteson and Miss Bertha
Knapp, of Scranton; Miss Caroline
Segfreid, of Pittston; Miss Mary
Armstrong, Miss Charlotte Spoerl, Miss
Nellie Baird and Miss Ella Charlton,
of Wilkes Barre, and Miss Annie
Book, of Hazleton.
The graduating exercises were con"
Quoted in the auditorium on the sec
ond floor, which was simply decorated
with palms for the occasion. In the
rear of the spacious hall, outside, Bau-
er's orchestra, hid behind bank of
palms, rendered delightful music dur
ing the several intermissions The
room was crowded with the friends Of
the nurses and of the hospital when
Rev. DR.. James Mcleod offered the
opening prayer.
Moses Taylor, of New York, the pres
Dr. n. Y. Leet, who was unexpectedly
called upon to make the address to
the graduates. DIR. Leet explained in
beginning that he was not much of a
speaker, but though he didn't indulge
in what the rustic calls "high falu-
tins" everything he said had the ring
OF common sense and bespoke an ex-
| tensive and observant experience.
THEY MUST PROGRESS.
He impressed upon them first and
| last the necessity of keeping in touch
| with the progress of their profession
! by means of constant study every day.
He told them Of a number of "donts'
which they should always keep in
mind
| Don't" said he, "when you are in
! n house, run the whole house. know
| of an excellent nurse in this city who
went into the home of one of the very
best families and who, though she was
good nurse, as l said before, imme-
| diately proceeded to run the laundry,
run the kitchen, run the cOachman and
who finally ran herself out of the
house.
Don't do anything you are not told
to do by the physician. If there is
anything I hate and abominate above
all other things it is this. If by some
| chance you should be in a quandary
as to what to do, don't trust yourself,
send for the doctor. He will know
what to do. BE careful, prudent and
kind, and above all things, for Gods
sake, be faithful. Remember that you
are paid for nursing and don't do any
thing else.
Don't talk. Too much talking in
jures the patient Don't regale sick
people with accounts of terrible opera
tions you have witnessed. l memem-
ber one lady, whose temperature rose
mysteriously from 9S to 105 degrees and
who suffered from a nervous shock fol
over three days. just because the nurs.
had told her about some amputation oi
other. This class Is certainly the best
that has ever graduated from the
Moses Taylor hospital, and I have seer
them all. 1t is the first class that never
missed a question asked"
Miss Maxwell, the superintendent o.
the New York Presbyterian hospital, O
New York, and who had charge of til,
nurses at Camp Wyckoff during tn,
Spanish h-American war, was the mex
speaker. She gave most thoughtful
address upon the ideal qualities o
which the nurse should possess. "I
our work is a joy to u.s." said she, 81
will have an influence that will reac
on those about us, and that will often
times disarm criticism"
LINES BROADENING.
r She explained how the lines of TIL
nurses work are gradually broadening
, Graduates in nursing are being mad
the heads of homes, hospitals and asy
= lums; they are engaging in settlemen
work, in the large cities, with all it
altrustic openings; they are being ais
a employed in the preparation of surgica
supplies.
She urged also the necessity of nurse
= organizing themselves into alumni as
, | sociations or clubs, for the purpose O
4 | eventually securing the legal reglstrl
/ ton of nurses as physicians now regis
D ter She spoke also OF the nurses uni
2 form, which, he said, should be "cOm
1 | plete, immaculate and noiseless."
= DIR. Mcleod was the last speaker, an
he gave a brief and witty address. II
/ explained that he was glad TO be abl
/ to associate with doctors, as they wer
. very busy men for six days in the wee
and from 1870 to 12 o'clock Sunda
I mornings. He impressed upon tn
graduates the necessity of being tfu
to themselves to their conscience an
to their profession. "A nurse" said h,
should have gentleness, tenderness
v sympathy and, above all, capacity"
e When DR. Mcleod had finished speal
= ing, President Taylor formally pre-
= sented each nurse with her diploma,
e bouquet of flowers and the Moses Tay
lor hospital badge. The guests the
a spent several delightful hours in socii
|. intercourse, being also served wit