The British nurse in peace and war / by Elizabeth S. Haldane.

  • Elizabeth Haldane
Date:
1923
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Credit: The British nurse in peace and war / by Elizabeth S. Haldane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the exertions of the first medical superin¬ tendent, Surgeon-General Passon, and Dr. Joseph Bell (well known to readers of his student Conan Doyle) was a warm friend to progress in the training of nurses and the first of their lecturers. He also, while on the staff, held a nurses' clinic every Sunday morning. The three-year standard of training was adopted in the 'eighties ; and now this large hospital of nearly 1,000 beds and 350 nurses has, like most other great hospitals, adopted the four-years system with a tutor-sister and the usual lectures and examinations. There is, however, no preliminary training-school, though the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow instituted a three-months scheme for preliminary training as early as 1893 (even earlier than the London Hospital), though on a non-residential system. Its young sister the Glasgow Western Infirmary began its work after the reform in the nursing system took place, and therefore it adopted the new methods from the begmning ; but though it has excellent teaching, including X-ray and electrical treatment, it has not any preliminary school. Both these hospitals have, like Edin¬ burgh, a four-year course. In the Edinburgh Infirmary, and indeed in all Scottish hospitals, there never was the lady probationer or paying system. Scottish schools are entirely democratic, and never made any distinction