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Credit: The overtrained nurse / by W. Gilman Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![definite medical control, or supervision of the cur- riculum, and I have known instances where polite insistence of a medical board, that it should revise the curriculum, has been regarded as an almost un- warranted interference. d he result is that nurses are absurdly overtrained and wrongly trained. Their long period of hospital ife, one third longer than that of members of the house staff, begets routine methods of work which 0 ten unfits them for the proper care of the indi- ' vidual patient, and the studies which they undertake m many instances belong to the first or even second year of a medical college course. ‘ As they are too busy with twelve hours a day of mechanical work to study any textbook subject thoroughly thev ac- quire a mere superficial introduction to many^ub- jects which do not in the least concern the true office o the nurse and, illustrating the danger of “ a little knowledge, they acquire also an entirely wrong per! spective. In support of this opinion, I will Jotta eries of examination questions asked the mmses at a well known school in the West, which are included as representative and model questions in the R^‘ ^ ~ nerves? e tle nfth and seventh cranial “ Na™ fihC b°neS °f the head and face. ;; What isTmmunity? gCrmS that Cause disease- ease of^th^kidneyT?06 °f albumen necessarily indicate dis- stomach contents? ^ f°r free hydrochloric acid in the “ GiveCa*30 lTi?ed[«-cfCt]r,°^-general .ur>nalysis. a “quick lunch?”] eatlse on digestion.” [perhaps of 1 submit that that concern nursing but first e^amination does not g, out first, second, or third year med-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22431032_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
