The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-20
NURSES IN CONVENTION HERE
ANNUlL GATHERING OF THE
ASSOCIATED ANIME.

One Question Dlaenssed u the nuty % the
Narse ~ 10 secrets Not Professional
TAX az EndON IRG q Chalr az CSlum-
bIA Pians Ter the Sessions % To-day.
Trained nurses ars here from every
State in tho Union and from the Canadian
provinces 10 attend the thirteenth an
nual meeting Of the Nurses Associated
AlumnR. An allied association with a
long name IL meeting simultaneously.
the American Society Of Superintendents
u Training schools for Nurses. Perhaps
600 trained nurses ars here a. delegates
representing 1S.OOo graduate nurses. and
there are AZ least 30 Of the training school
superintendents meeting with them.
Az luncheon and tea time yesterday
the nurses attracted a good deal Of at
tentioh In tho uptown hotels. There are
comparatively few young women among
them. Most Of them are middle aged
Some seem pTematurely gray. All %
them are very serious and businesslike
and have a quick. brisk way of talking
like people who realize the value Of time.
Az the morning session of their con
vention In Mendslasohn Hall Miss Jane
A. Delano Of Washington, ID. C.. the head
Of tho Red Cross Rursihg service and
one Of the best known graduate nurses
in the country presided. She described
the development Of nursing from its
inception to the present day. Il was
the Crimean War, Miss DelaRO told her
associates. that first called attention
to the value Of q trained nurse. Il was.
she said. the first great war TO he reported
promptly by the newspapers. and PEOPLE
were able to learn for the first time just
what heroic work the women like Flor
enCe Nightingale did on the battlefelds.
1T was this realization and the won
derful courage Of Florence Nightingale.
said Miss DelAnO. that gave nursing il
first impetus. Il Was Florence Nightingale.
returning from the horrors Of the Crimean
war. who saw the possibilities for good
that lay in the Inauguration Of a new
system Of training professional nurses.
The first school for training nurses was
established in London soon after and
in a short time Helen Nightingale. sister
Of the angel Of the Crimea. was presiding
over the frat nurses training school
In America. here in New York
After telling the story u how the Red
Cross had its beginning from the idea
Of a poor Swiss who was horrihed a. the
slaughter at the battle of SoIerinO. Miss
Delano touched on the criticism that
IA sometimes directed at trained nurses
ell l.. - Al
Of the times. she said We need criti-
cism. The fact that We get u shows that
We are working 20 some purpose II We
we're being ignored and allowed ~ pass
unnoticed, il would be much more tn he
deplored. I have always thought that
the nurse shared with the sisters Of the
religious u.ders unique opportunities
for the widespread doing u good. IL ~
strange fact nurse on 60 into the
worst dens Of misery where other women
cannot and with this remembrance %
hack us up We should always direct
our efforts untiringly a. the solution ~
the several social problems
The afternoon session in Mendels-
sohn Hall was symposium on private
duty nursing. One Of the addresses In
which the delegates SEEMED most IN
terested was written by Ruth Brewster
sherman Of baltimore and read 10y Miss
DehnO Miss Shermans psper dealt
with the sthioal side Of the work Of
private duty nurse, the things q nurse
aOmetimes sees and hears but must not
discuss. any more than a physician or a
lawyer may talk Of the private affairs
of a patient OF a client Miss sherman
asked what should he a nurses duty
u working a week In house and The
following week m another she found the
same man az the head ~ the two house
holds he opinion Heemsd g. prevail
that u would be the nurses duty 10 at
tend strictly a. the work she was saut a. do
NADIA T. fumlnson. missionary nursr.
spoke on Opportunities Tor Nursing 10
thina DR. Samuel Lwemer ~ the
student Volunteer Moveinent had some .
thing 20 say on the same topic. Both
said that a missionary achieves hIs great
Get usefulness through medical ana nurs-
ing work aud that n Young women ~
thi. country can bring themselves to
abandon tho chances - distinction "a
the great hospitals ~ .n private nursing
there are plenty 81 opportunities Tor
fame 10 CHINA and el-ew here % the
crowded Orient where doctors a. well 49,
nurses are scarce.
Margaret 4. PepOon ~ San Diego.
cal spoke on The Private Duty Nurse
IN Rural Homes There Was dis
nNaalun on IuH INNlNH NV NNlNaNF NANN
Nurse IN the lnsttution Among the
COMMITTEES reports discussed we're public
health district nursing iuberc'ilar nurs-
iug. almshOuse nursing and the pension
fund
q ~ verv likely a. was apparent from
the talk Yesterday afternoon that the
graduate nurses Of the country will endOW
q chair Of nursing in the Teachers college
Of Columbia University The chair will
b. a memorial 20 Isabel Hampton RObb.
Who was superintendent Of the nurses
training school Of Johns Hopkins I nj
vsrsity and Who was killed bv a street
car ~ cleveland not long ago. Isabel
Hampton kobb founded both societies
that are represents led az the convention,
the siIp@rintendents association and the
ahImns. bOdy j. 10 estimated that A.
least tiOO.OBi can he raised among the
nurses and that this amount will be- s@t
tied upOn ~ this meeting a. the amount
of the endowment
The convention has sent two Interesting
cahegrams across the Atlantic On
Wednesday night the nurses Cablsd their
r-spscts 20 Florence Nightingale Who ~
living N London Shs is IN her ninety
hTst year Yesterday Cablegram Of
syIppHthv vas sent 10 Alexandra. the
Queen Mother who has always been k-enly
Interested IN the work II was Queen
Alexandra who founded the Alexandra
service. which has charge u nursing work
in the British arm"
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