Annual report : 1934 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.
- Society for the Lying-In Hospital
- Date:
- 1934
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report : 1934 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Report of Nursing Activities I herewith submit the annual report of the Nursing Service of the Lying-In Hospital for the year nineteen hundred and thirty- four. Our aim to maintain a high standard of maternity nursing care as set up with the aid of the medical staff, has been greatly ad¬ vanced by closer contact and cooperation with the Maternity Center Association and other organizations caring for our patients in their homes. This association has provided opportunity for the review of information given to patients registered at our ante¬ natal clinic. A pamphlet containing advice to mothers and one of standing orders for public health nurses have been prepared by a committee of our medical and nursing staffs. Through the interest of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Board this material has been printed and is now being distributed to our patients. The increased census due to the opening of semi-private beds has required a corresponding increase in staff membership, bring¬ ing the total appointments for the year to one hundred and twenty-seven. This figure includes twenty-nine former students whose familiarity with the methods of the department reduced the interruption to service usually attending change. During nineteen hundred and thirty-four, thirty-eight students of the New York Hospital School of Nursing received instruction and had practice in obstetrical and gynecological nursing. Fifty- nine affiliating students have had the same experience; eighteen from the Bloomingdale Hospital School of Nursing at White Plains, New York; thirty from the Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing in New York City; eleven from the Moses Taylor Hospital School of Nursing at Scranton, Pa. Thirty-eight graduate students were admitted to the school, representing schools of nursing in eighteen states. One hundred and twenty- seven of the total number of students enrolled satisfactorily completed the course. Little change has been made in the course of instruction for the [12]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31710979_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
