New Britain herald., 1928-07-28
NURSING REQUIRES
 INTENSE TRAINING
Miss TraVer Outlines Course and
 Life at Hospital School

The opportunities open to nurses and the influence a training ill the profession of nursing has in making better home makers of girls who take up this work, is pointed out in an interview by Miss Maude F. Trav- CT, directress of nurses at the New Britain General hospital. Miss Trav- CT describes the making" of a nurse and explains that the study includes great deal more than simply ca tering to the bedside needs of pa- tients.
 Speaking of the training course Miss Traver says:
 II wish it was possible for me to step into every home, clasp the hand of each parent and lead them along the road being travelled by the nurse in training. Indeed, l should like to take many others with me. for not many seem to have clear conception of what the training of a nurse consists. There seems to be a prevalent idea that young Wom- an enters hospital puts on unl- form and cap, spends her days walt ing on patients and at the end or three years is graduated. There IS nothing further from the truth than this thought. On the contrary, young women are developed into trained nurses by considerable class room teaching of the theory cf medical, surgical and nursing sub tects and by closely supervised practical work in the hospital.
 Steps Girls Must Take
 "Iet us consider the steps a young woman takes who desires to enter training. First she will prob- ably write to several hospitals for information regarding their schools and their requirements for enter- ing. From the information she re- cejyes she will learn that there are two types of training schools or nursing in Connecticut and else where: registered and unregistered; that the registered training schools are those that have met the mlm- mum requirements of the state ov employing qualified instructors to teach a standard curriculum, and that the schools accept only those candidates who have had at least a certain amount of high school edu- cation. She will also learn that only graduates of registered schools are permitted to take the state examl- nations for the degree of R. N. (reg- fstered nurse) and that only nurses with such a degree can hold posi- tons in registered hospitals, the Red Cross and similar institutions.
 "Assuming that the young woman meets the educational and character requirements of the hospital of her choice, she will be admitted to the school for a preliminary course last ing three to four months.
 "Now you will find her in uni form which is quite distinctive from what she will wear later on It will take her a little while to become accustomed to the routine daily life of the school for she must be at breakfast and morning chapel promptly and ready to begin class work al o'clock. During the pre- liminary training she will spend ap- proximately six hours a day, five days a week, in classrooms and about two hours each day in the hospital. assisting the nurses. She is taught the elementary parts of anatomy, physiology, bacteriology. nursing ethics, drugs and solutions. history of nursing and principles of nursing. The teaching of these sub iects is augmented by maniklns and charts. At the end of the prelimi- nary course the young woman IS examined in the subjects she has had to determine whether or not she is intellectually and tempera mentally fitted to be accepted into the school as a junior student nurse.
 Studies Broad Course
 of the young woman is accepted she will then don the uniform of the school. Now she will spend more hours each day in the hospi- tai, but she also continues her class room work daily, taking up the theory of advanced nursing, symp- toms and treatment, diet in sick ness, materia medica, principles of massage, chemistry. urinalysis, care of the patient before and after anesthesia, elementary psychology of nursing. ethics. nutrition and cooking. This period as a junior nurse covers eight months.
 During this time her contact rfaif nf n- creased and when the eight months is up she is again examined and if she passes is advanced to the in- termediate class of one year dura- ton. Now she is taught the theory and practice of such subjects as nursing in medical. surgical and gynecological diseases, pediatrics. orthopedics and operating room technic and obstetrics. From the intermediate class she enters her senior year. By this time her class room work is becoming lessened but her practical work in the surgery. maternity and other departments is being increased in order to develop the technic she has learned in theory.
 'As her training is coming to close she is placed in charge of cer- tain departments to develop stamina and then come the final examina- tions to determine whether or not she is to graduate.
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