Report of the Royal Commission on the practice of subjecting live animals to experiments for scientific purposes : with minutes and evidence and appendix / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Vivisection (1875)
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the practice of subjecting live animals to experiments for scientific purposes : with minutes and evidence and appendix / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Appendix K. SUGGESTIONS for improving the Nursing Service of Hospitals, and of the Method of Training Nurses for the Sick Poor (by Miss Nightingale). 1. Method of Training Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital. {Under the Niijhtingale. Fund.) In the process of training the following are the steps :— Every woman applying for admission is required to fill up the form of Application (Appendix No. 1), which is supplied to her by the Matron of St. Thomas's Hospital, on application. Appendix No. 2 are the Regulations under which the Probationer is admitted to training. After being received on a month's trial and trained for a month, if the woman shows sufficient aptitude and character, and is herself desirous to complete her training, she is required to come under the obligation (Appendix No. 2a,) which is printed on the back of No. 2, binding her to enter into hospital service for at least three years. This is the only recompense the Committee exact for the costs and advantages of training. The list of ' Duties' (Appendix No. 3) is put into the hands of every Probationer on entering the service, as a general instruction for her guidance, and she is checked off by the Matron and ' Sisters ' (Head Nurses) in the same duties, as will be men- tioned immediately. Appendix No. 4 is the day and Night Time Table, to which all Probationers are required generally to conform. It prescribes the time of rising, the ward hours, time of meals, time of exercise, hours of rest. Once admitted to St. Thomas's Hospital, the Probationer is placed under ' a Head Nurse (Ward ' Sister ') having charge of a ward. In addition to her salary received from the Hospital, the Ward ' Sister' is paid by the ' Fund' for training these Probationers. The number of Probationers she can adequately train of course depends on the size and arrangement of her ward and its number of beds. The Ward ' Sisters' are all under an able Matron, who superintends the training of the Probationers, in addition to her other duties, for which the ' Fund ' pays her a salary, irrespective of her salary as Matron to St. Thomas's Hospital. The ward training of the Probationers is thus carried out under the Ward ' Sisters' and Matron. [The Probationers are, whether on or ofi duty, entirely under the moral control of the Matron. She has an assistant whose duty it is to take charge, under her, of the domestic arrangement of the Probationers' House and to conduct improvement classes.] To ensure efficiency, each Ward ' Sister' is supplied with a book in the Foi'm, Appendix No. 5, which corresponds generally with the List of Duties, Appendix No. 3, given to the Probationer on her entrance. The columns in the Ward ' Sisters' Book are filled up by suitable marks once a week. Besides the ward training properly so called, there are a number of duties of a medical and surgical character, in which the Probationers have to be practically instructed. And this instruction is given by the Medical Instructor at the bedside or otherwise, for which he is remunerated by the ' Fund.' St. Thomas's Hospital is the seat of a well-known Medical School, several of the Professors attached to which, voluntarily and without remuneration, give lectures to the Probationers on subjects connected with their special duties, such as elementary instruction in chemistry, with reference to air, water, food, &c. ; physiology, with reference to a knowledge of the leading functions of the body, and general instruction on medical and surgical topics. While the Ward ' Sisters' are required to keep a weekly record of the progress of the 'Probationers,' the Probationers themselves are required to keep a diary of their ward work, in Avhich they write day by day an account of their duties. They are also required to record special cases of disease, injury, or operation, with the daily changes, in the case, and the daily alterations in management, such as a Nurse requires to know. Besides](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23983334_1056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
