Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing.
- Liverpool. Royal Infirmary. Training School and Home for Nurses.
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.
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![tunity of arrivinri at tliis knowledge. Slie has neitlier instniction uor training; and she comes to her duty with all her experience to learn, and nobody quaUlied to enlighten her. Everywhere this want is felt; and in a very short time it is to be hoped that every large town will make provision for training its Nurses, both for rich and poor, as well as for Hospital service. Sir JoliD McNeil] says :— The Physician relies mainly on his means of aiding the curative efforts which nature makes by the exercise of the vital powers, and every demand which is made upon those powers, to counteract irritating and depressing influences not necessarily consequent upon the di-:ease from which the patient suffers, is so much subtracted from the forces on which the Piiysician must rely for effecting a cure. When the disease is formidable and the result of the struggle doubtful, the success or failure of the Phy- sician will in a great measure depend upon the skill and ability with which the Nurse economises and sustains the vital powers of the patient, whose recovery or death will depend quite as much on the qualifications of the Nurse as of the Physician. Indeed, in many cases, the Physician, who sees the patients only once or twice perhaps daily, must be guided in a great measure by the report of the Nurse, who is in constant attendance; and he cannot hope for success in his practice unless he can rely upon the fidelity and intelligence of the Nurse's report. The aid of trained, intelligent, and trustworthy nurses is therefore indispensable to the proper treatment of the sick ; but that aid cannot now be obtained, unless occasionally, and in a few cases. Before deciding on the establishment or form of the Institution, we consulted the Medical and other authorities of the Liverpool Infirmary, and those elsewhere who are known to have success- fully devoted much time and thought to the subject of nursing. Miss Nightingale gave our plans the same consideration as if (to use her own words) she were going to be herself the matron. From the Lady Superintendent of the St. John's House Nursing Institution we received the most kind and valuable aid. Her experience in working successfully a Nursing Institution in intimate connection with a Hospital (as we proposed to do) made her advice peculiarly valuable. The Hon. Secretary of Devonshire Square Nursing Institution (the first establishment for training Nurses, founded by Mrs. Fry, and for more than twenty years in successful operation,) also aided us with advice and encouragement. We fuither had the valuable advice of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20452585_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
