Annual report : 1929 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.
- Society for the Lying-In Hospital
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report : 1929 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The cooperation and loyalty of the staff nurses has been note¬ worthy ; exceptional demands have been made on them and they have met their additional responsibilities efficiently. The monthly meetings held by the supervising nurses have been pro¬ ductive of many helpful suggestions. Improvement in ward procedure has been worked out and discussion of costs of ward supplies has made the requisitions of these materials more economical. The support given the Nursing Department by the Chief Surgeon and the Staff of Lecturers has enabled us to progress along many lines. Their understanding of our particular prob¬ lems in a constantly changing nursing service has facilitated greatly the work in this hospital. Through the generosity of a friend of the nurses, one hundred dollars worth of new books were added to the reference and fiction libraries of the school. These are a valuable addition and, with a new radio which was given to the nurses by the hospital, have been very popular. Owing to the opening of an Obstetrical Department at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, that hospital discontinued their affiliation. Charlesgate Hospital, in Cambridge, Massa¬ chusetts, discontinued theirs because of the expense involved in sending the students to New York. During the year 190 students were admitted, 145 were pupil nurses and 45 Post Graduate nurses. One pupil was recalled to her own school, two resigned, and three Post Graduate students left before completion of the course. Respectfully submitted, LILA J. NAPIER, R. N. Directress of Nurses. [16]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31710943_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
