The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-31
TO meet BIG NEED OF STATE
Special Course Will be Arranged for
the Training Of the Nurses in Con-
nection With the State Hospits! for
the Insane.

A training school for nurses conduct
ed by the state of Wisconsin is one OF
the latest forms of public service IN
dertaken in q commonwealth already
famous for originality in it's economic
system. At the state hospital at Men
dota a course of thirty-six weeks has
been successfully carried out. This
training school was organized in Sep
TENDER, 1910.
Unusual advantages for the novitiate
are claimed, particularly the low cos!
of training. After probation period
of about two months, to test the fitness
for the work, pupils receive $40 q
month with an increase of 81 every
three months until the maximum is
reached in the position in which they
are placed. IF superior ability is shown
the pupil may be advanced within q
few months TO some better position
with an advance in salary. All EN-
|ployes are furnished room, board ant
laundry free.
The faculty consists of the superin
tendent of the institution, DR.. Charles
Gorst; the superintendent of the train
| ing school, Miss Esther 7. Jackson, and
the following assistant physicians: DIR
M. K. Green, assistant superintendent;
DR.. William T. Lorenz, chief Of the
medical staff; DR.. August Sauthoff, DIR
Mary Sautholf and DR.. P A. Soelberg
A course of lectures and demonstrations
I will be given by the faculty on all sub
jects taught in the school.
Chapter 346 of the laws of 1911 pre-
scribes a three years course of instruc
ton for anyone wishing to become 9
trained nurse and be qualified to pass
the board of examining nurses in Wis
consin- 1t says:
''Such instruction shall be both the
oretical and practical in the following
branches: Nursing, ethics, anatomy
physiology, hygiene, diathetics, materia
medica, elementary urinalysis, medical,
surgical and genealogical nursing,
obstetrical nursing, including the care
of infants, and a thorough course of
theoretical instruction and, when pos
sible, practical experience in contag-
ious nursing and the nursing of sick
children
The course will be divided into three
parts, each to constitute one year s
work in any legally organized training
school in the state. The state hospital
and others Of its kind are termed
"special' and under the law may teach
the work Of the first two years of the
prescribed course of training. This
hospital will affiliate with the general
hospitals and it's pupils will be ad-
mitted to the general hospital for the
third years work and for graduation,
after which the nurse will be qualified
to pass the state board of examining
nurses and receive the degree of R. N.
Tt is announced that the school will
teach not only the rules and regula-
tions of the hospital, but will give
thorough instructions in all that belongs
to the art of nursing, so that pupils
will be taught general sick nursing as
well as the special care of the insane.
Young women taking this course of
training will be taught order, method,
accuracy and the power of self-control
and will find that culture will enter
largely into their instruction. They
must be between IS and 27 years old,
physically well and of good character.
High school graduates are preferred.
Miss Esther Jackson, who has re-
Gently been elected superintendent of
the training school, comes highly re-
commended as a woman of education
and wide experience as superintendent
of such schools. She has served two
years as superintendent of the training
school at st. Mary's hospital, Chicago,
and three years in the city hospital at
Schenectady, N. Y.