Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-14
minimum expense to the hospital,
then VIC shall have truly trained nurs'

SuCA W. 0H0Il uANC SluAy ANsACW ANAo
es.
All Of the laws have their weak
places; laws cannot put the un.ethicas
nurse out of existence; they cannot
make good nurses nor honorable WO-
men; they cannot change the char
acter Of the nurse; but they can ex-
pose the nurses who sail under false
colors, and the nurses who have had
a practical course, and who, have
been expelled for incompetency or
worse faults, and who call them
selves, trained nurses. Has not state
registration played a part in the. call
for post graduate work? The STAN
dard of the profession has been rails.
ed by registration. A nurse has
either been away from her training
school SO long that she is not quite
up 10 the more modern methods Of
her work, or she has graduated from
a school that is not up to the average.
In either case she finds it difficult to
meet the requirements Of the state
board examination, and brings her
self up to the standard by q post
graduate course
Registration has produced a de-
all nursing interests in a community
mand for central repositories where
can be concentrated. State laws have
brought about the affiliations between
the special. and general hospitals,
and between the large and small
ones, thereby affording necessary
variety of training for the pupils.
Registration is helping the Red
Cross Committee on nursing service
to enroll the very best nurses. is It
of any value to a nurse that an as
soCiation requires its members to he
registered? Yes, II Is of value, be-
cause no nurse can DC registered uE-
til the State Board or committee have
proven her to he mentally and moral
ly fit. to take her place In the nurs-
ing world. and every nurse will soon
learn that an association composed OF
registered nurses means an assOcla-
ton composed of the best representa-
tives of her profession.
The progressive hospitals and ST.
perintendent who believe in registra.
ton, and want their nurses to. meet
its requirements want their nurses
to be perfect in every branch, anu
are making lietetics and a practical
training in the diet kitchen, under
the management Of u graduate Of d
domestic science, an important part
Of the curriculum. As some Hospitals
are not built to afford room for d
dict kitchen. a demand has, arisen
for domestic science in several com.
munities. i
T The day is not far of when the
nurses law Of each state will be
amended SO as to protect absolutely
the word nurse; then only, the truly
trained nurse will act as a nurse.
Now that everyone is willing to ad.
init that nursing is the II profes
sion where women excel men, we
may expect state registration to pave
the way for the appointment OF
nurses on boards Of hospitals and
training schools.
Every step in advance brings
greater responsibility 50 registration
has .widened the fields Of usefulness
and power Of the nursing profession.
The ideals in regard to registration
change from year to year; they can.
not remain fixed, they must grow If
the nurses wish to be worthy of their
responsibilities and opportunities.
Progress and education are 4. the
watchwords. 1t is only through active
intelligent cooperation of individuals
and q close affiliation Of organizations
that the standards already obtained
can be lifted to a higher plane during
the next ten years.