The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-08-02
TRAINING SCHOOL.
The New Orleans Charity Hos
pital Affords a Splendid
Chance for Nurses.

OF the most anu thorough anu up
to-date institutions in the United
States, which numbers among its
graduates ladies of the highest
character, worthy representatives
of the oldest and best families of
Ilthis aud other States.
The School, which is now enter
ing its fifteenth year, is the out
growth of that broad humanity
which would bring to the aid of
physical suffering not only the
sympathy. tenderness and love
which only q woman can give, but
the trained hand, the observant
eve, the skillful touch of that
woman whose intelligence has
kept pace with her heart, and
who, taking up this noble calling
a a life work, bends to 1t all the
energies of her being, all the fac
uIties of her soul, and the truest
impulses of her heart that human.
Ity may be lifted up, that the sick
may walk again In health and
strength.
The skilled hand, the we'll equip
ped offices of the nurse, who
knows her duty, are in constant
demand, and the call for them is
ever widening. This may espe-
cially be said of the nurses who
graduate from the New Orleans
Charity Hospital School. Many
a woman, hitherto unconscious of
the hidden powers that lay within
her, has found in this great school
the opportunity for that study and
development which has proven
not only most lucrative means
of livelihood, but far aud above
this, the answer to the divine call
in her heart, the response to the
"still small voice." ever urging
inward and onward that human
. misery and pain may be relieved.
The School, organized from
small beginnings and enriched vs.
the magnificent bequest of the
late A. G.. Hutchinson, has grown
to its present splendid proper
tions, and proposes to aggregate
class of over one hundred stud
ents with the opening of the next
term. Year by year has witnessed
an extension Of its scope of work,
so that a two years course in this
institution will not only fully
equip any intelligent. industrious
female for this great profession
of nursing, but the experience
gained In the famous Charity
Hospital, with its unrivaled faciii-
ties and opportunities for study
rand practice, gives its graduated
nurses distinction that makes
them so greatly sought after that
the demand for their services
| is far In excess of the sup
ply. An idea of the superior
advantages offered by the School
may be gained when it is stated
that over one thousand patients,
male and female, of all classes,
races and conditions, are treated
in the Charity Hospital of New
Orleans every month. The nurses
connected with its Training School
have the benefit of receiving in,
struction and training at the bed.
/, side of this enormous number oil
patients; the experience thus gain.
ed, together with the knowledge
acquired from the faculty OF
lecturers, consisting Of some OF
1.-The aolest and most distinguished
medical men in the country, emf.
nently fits them to attain success
and independence in their chosen
} profession.
The hospital has accommoda.
tons now for quite q number oil
r candidates and vacancies arr
constantly occurring as nurses
/ graduate. Applicants should adj
+ dress the Dlrectress, Chart,
I Hospital, New Orleans, La, fol
I full details, which are in pam
1 phlet form.
! Some Of the Regulations for Nurse
Attached to the Charity Hospital.
; The Training School for Fe
q male Nurses, attached to tn,
D Charity Hospital, offers t.
s women DESTROYS of becomin,
I professional nurses entrance int
I the school for q course of tw,
Z years instruction upon the fol
9 lowing condition:
4 Those wishing to enter The
5 school should apply. either II
+ person or by letter, to thu
I Directress, Charity Hospital, New
Z Orleans, for q blank list o.
9 questions to be answered. Th'
4 applicant should send, will
5 answers to her "paper of cues
q ltions," . letter from q clergyman
) testifying to her good mora