How to become a nurse : the nursing profession : how and where to train, being a guide to training for the profession of a nurse, with particulars of nurse training schools in the United Kingdom and abroad and an outline of the prinicipal laws affecting nurses, etc. / edited by Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B.

Date:
[1905?]
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Credit: How to become a nurse : the nursing profession : how and where to train, being a guide to training for the profession of a nurse, with particulars of nurse training schools in the United Kingdom and abroad and an outline of the prinicipal laws affecting nurses, etc. / edited by Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contains, so that any one who consults its pages may be able to obtain a preliminary knowledge of every requisite particular as to qualifications, preliminary requirements, hours of duty, examinations, recreation, salary, premium, sleeping accommodation, pension arrangements, and in fact everything which an intending probationer may want to know. Heretofore she has only been able to obtain this information by writing to the matrons or communi- cating with some technical journal like The Hospital. We commence our review with an abstract of the principal laws affecting nurses, which is likely to prove serviceable not only to Nurses and Institutions but to members of the medical profession. The particulars con- cerning the Nurse Training Schools of the Metropolis and throughout the United Kingdom are given in two divi- sions. The first contains an account of the larger training schools attached to general hospitals and poor law infir- maries with over loo beds, and the second those general hospitals with lOO beds and under, and all special hospi- tals where some form of Nurse training is undertaken. In the latter section cross references are given to those Nursing Institutions which select suitable women whom they send for a definite period to a training school in order to undergo a course of instruction in nursing. To meet the case of those Nurses who leave their training school at the end of the period of training, information is given concerning Nursing Institutions and typical Hospitals where they can obtain employment. The details in this section have been selected so as to show as far as possible the conditions of employment in various parts of the United Kingdom. No book of this kind would be com- plete without particulars of Societies and Institutions, the objects of which include the promotion of thrift amongst Nurses, the raising of their status, the institution of examinations, and the issue of diplomas in subjects which will prove useful to them in their career. These have accordingly been added, together with details of other societies which are calculated in any way to benefit them. The institutions are divided according to localities, and