New Britain herald., 1926-02-09
HEAD OF NURSES
 DISCUSSES CRAFT
Miss TraVer Tells Lions Club
 of Requirements

lHc lldhlHE Ot nurse Nue llls subject discussed by Miss Maude E. Traver, directress Of nurses at the New Britain General hospital. in an address to the Lions club today.
 There are three types of people whom the average individuals feels it has inherent privilege. If not duty. to discuss and criticize according 10 ones daily moods" Miss Travers said. They arc the clergyman. the doctor and the nurse. might add fourth--the reporter,
 Few know what making young woman into a trained nurse consists of, Many seem 10 have an Idea that she enters a hospital. puts on a uni form and cap, works all day waiting on patients and at the end Of three years is graduated. There ia noth- ing further from the truth.
 The young woman today enters q schoo, for nurses just as the young man enters a medical college. Jus, as medical schools are rated accord ing 10 their requirements, so are schools for nurses rated.
 In q somewhat similar way | training schools for nurses are but in two classes, registered and unregistered. This is done by the state. For n training school 10 be registered the state requires that the young woman to be admitted shall have certain education; that 1 a minimum number of medical and ! surgical nursing subjects shall be taught: that there shall be certain 1 number ot full-time teachers who are college graduates. that the school shall be equipped with minimum amount of laboratories to i teach chemistry, bacteriology. die i tetics and other equipment for teaching anatomy. physiology and number of hours shall be spent in 1 claSsrooms and not more than q certain number of hours shall be spent in the hospital; that the course shall be progressive all through the training course. leading up to final examinations, which must be he'd semi-annually; that her practical work in nursing patients on the floors, assisting in the surgery, ma- ternity. accident rooms and diet kitchens shall be of certain length Of time, checked up and passed up- on. 1T she passes in this work the school graduates her, whcreupon the state board again gives full eX- animation in all the subjects and if she again passes she is given the state degree of registered nurse.
 If q training school does thcS" things then it is registered school If it does not. then it is not register ed and its graduates cannot take tn" state board examination for tn" R. N..' and cannot obtain position in a registered hospital, Red Cross work and certain other fields.
 You may gather from this that a trained nurse does not like topsy just rrow. but is tho result of real theoretical and practical training, closely supervised, and you may rightly surmisc that a modern train ing school Is an expensive thing 10 equip and maintain with apparatus and personnel.
 The nurse gets her theory In the class rooms and the hospital may he thought of as laboratory in which she gets her practical training. To- Nt.itIN knowledge of scientific medicine than the doctor had 4o years ago You may ask Is it necessary that she should have so much theory '' Isn't it taking away from her that kindly, sympathetic bearing that the old nurse had? Well, the first is the result of modern mcdicine-that is she must be trained to meet the nursing requirements of the modern physician.
 There Is not an operation or hardly scientific diagnosis under taken that the nurse isn't called upon to do the preliminary steps, In so far as her sympathy. l can OlllS say lildl SS III PdtlIS lS tNtlNl N'Ni only as 1t is inherent in us l do feel, however, that the work the modern nurse is called upon 10 do is prone to take much of her time away from the patient which for nierly was given to offering comfort.
 What about our own training school? I dare speak of it because I know you arc interested and want yo uto know something about the New Britain hospital training school
 First of all. I am very proud to state that it Is q registered school since 1918, but owing to war condi- tions, the school had somewhat Of a slump for thrcc years following, During the past four years it has been several steps ahead of the ac- tual requirements of the stnte. ln' deed, I know of no school in Con- 4lo. ga1N,u.s opy rtp fbE