The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-05-02
TRAINING SCHOOL
FOR W. ri ES WORK


demands and the overwhelming re-
sponsibllities and anxietles OF such
work as inevitably awaits them there
by or by night. should be consid-
cred. No school dare assume that
IL will be able to provide influences
and safeguards strong enough and
far-reaching enough to protect
either patient or pupil under these
conditions"
AS for the educational require
ments,; Miss Nutting presents these
figures:
From the reports OF Gee train
ing schools made In 1911 to the
Bureau of Education, it appears
that about thirty-fve per cent OF the
total number state requirement Of
high school or its equivalent; about
-twenty-three per cent call for moth
ing beyond the common school; the
remaining fourteen per cent either
make no educational requirements
whatever, and say so in unmls-
taxable terms, or indicate merely al
preference"
When the girl finally enters upon
her training course, she usually
finds, according to the Bureau of
Education bulletin, that 1t consists
of prolonged, and sometimes Excess
sive, hours OF nursing, while instruc-
ton in the theory of the subject is
minimized. In addition, Miss Nut
ting charges, the students are often,
exploited"
Not only is all the general nurs-|
ing in hospitals one through the
services Of the students" says Miss
Nutting, "but in certain instances
the students themselves become an
actual source of direct and consid.
cradle profit to the institution. This
happens when the student enters a
private hospital for two three years
and is placed at very early stage
OF her work upon special duty with
a single patient, considerable fee
being charged for her services. In
some instances 1t is said that pupils
are kept at such special individual
work during the greater portion or
the course of their so-called train
ing, the fees for their services going
to the management.
''Bnt this does not exhaust the
methods by which hospitals can
utilize for their own profts the SER
vices of their students.
'out of the entire SEQ hospitals
from which statistics were recently
received, 24swere found sending
out their pupils into families in the
for private nursing, for
periods ranging from two to twenty
six weeks. the payment for this SER
vice in almost all instances going d.
rectly to the hospital.
st can be readily seen how the
effort to guard the education of
nurses by suitable legislation would
Interfere with such exploiting Of the
pupil nurse, and It is well known
fact that the most persistent oppo-
nents of such legislation In the
various states have been found
among those representing such hos
whose financial inter-
ests were involved in maintaining
the status quo"
Among the remedial measures
suggested by Miss Nutting, in order
TO raise the standard of professional
training for nurses, she advocates
that the hospitals adopt the policy
Of paying for a considerable part OF
their nursing, as we'll as of domestic
services which the students are now
and she also maintains
that "the first step toward develop
Ing proper schools of nursing lies
in separating them from the hos
pital and its control and placing
them upon an independent basis"
She adds: while hospital and train
ing schools are fundamentally inter
dependent, there is no more reason
why the hospital should own and
control the training school than the
medical school. The basis of rela-
should be one of close and
efficient cooperation"