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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 0, 1023, | quirements that are falr and | sary in an institution of this kind These are made known to the stu- | dent upon her arvival and she is re- spensible to the efficers of the sehool for her conduct while in training, Allowances. No charge is made for tuition, | Candidates, before entrance, provide | themselves with the uniferms worn during the probationary termm. Aft. er acceptance Into the schoel students wear the school uniform, An allow- | ance of eight, ten and 13 dellars per| | month is given according to the year | of service, Text books and uniforms | lare furnished the student while In the training school, Nurses are on duty not less than elght hours, with half day off through the week, and half day Sundays and holldays. The| school 1s non-seetarian but all puplls | | are required to be present at morn. | | ing preyers and are given time on | Sundays to attend the place of wor- ship they prefer, In sickness students are cared for | gratuitously and receive professiofal | treatment from the physiclan or sur- geon of the school for such time as | deemed necessary by the tralning | school committee, The first two months of probation, which coincide with the preliminary period, are to enable the applicant to deelde definitely whether she really | cares enough for nursing to complete the two and one-half years course; also to enable the directress of the school to determine whether the ap plicant is adapted to the work and qualified to make a success of it, Teaching Equipment Facllities provided for the theoretl. cal and practical Instruction of the students include class, lecture and demonstration roo) For demon- stration purposes & ward unit is main. | tained, cousisting of beds, bedside furniture, medicine, utility and Itnen closets, at whieh time the serving of | 08 | supper trays begins | Al § o'vlock preparations are made | for the night All fowers are re-| maved fr vooms and placed | in fresh water, Blankets are distrib. uted to patients and freah water 18| distributed, At 7 o'cloek the day nurse goes off duty, after 12 hours of hard and busy work. But 1t 1s not dlsagreeable work, To | Mmm the nurse whose humane qualities are | such as to induce a feeling of sym- | | pathy for the afflieted, there is & sort of fascination in the thought that she .u is helping to alleviate the sufferings/ of the less fortunate, even though | ” | thelr misfortunes be but temporary, ; More Nurses Needed, The nurse in the women's depart- ment has the hardest work, mueh of | the detajl eare of a minor nature in| the men's wards and rooms being done by male orderlies. The night nurse, who is all alone on a floo worked particularly hard at the pres. | ent time because of a shortage of | student nurses, | Rometimes the nurse goes into Iha[ operating room, where, if she 1s at| all Interested in her profession, she | has some wonderful experience Here she sees the treatment known | a8 surgery, at first hand, She sees| hour || Nursing a Dignified Profession With Many Attractive Features after While she 1is “resting” she must answer call from patients Who | eannot sleep, cheer Up youn ters in the children's ward who econtinually ry for “Nurse I want a drink,” or urse, I'm hungry,’ ‘ete At midnight she starts a round of all patients, taking their puise, tem- perature and respiration, At 4 a, m, this round 1s repeated and “medica- tions,” are included, keeping her as A woman lay on a bed in & private | busy as it 18 possible for one person room in the New Hritain general hot: (o he, until § e'clock, when patients pital, Bhe was recovering from a res | must be washed before hreakfast cent operation and was amusing her Must Finish On Time, solf, by watehing the movements of ¥ wirse on the floor, It was eve. No matter how many patients she g The day nurse had gona and |hAS this Job muat be completed in an the night nurse was on duty, | hour, regardless of the many inters “People little realize what a hera. | TUptions, At 6 o'clock she arranges ine the average nurse is, to go through the flowers which have been taken her daily routine hravely and con.|OUt of room over night, put fresh ntiously,” she thought, | water in the vases and returns them Please Miss — can 1 have a|te the rooms from which they came, Irink of water?" asks a troublesome | And Woe unto her if she ever gets the patient who knows full well she has!flowers in the wrong room. After just recovered consciousness and the ©rowding an hour's work into a fow Avink of water might result fatally to | Minutes, as she must do in all traln- people literally taken apart and their ler 1ife and the nurse's job, Another |08 #chools, she has nothing to do inner works repaired, or certain parta patient wants a drink, She has seen | Untl she goes off duty at 7 a. m., x-|that have become defective, removed, the nurse cross the floor a dogen | 6Pt to clean up the dlet Kkitchen,| At some period in her career she s ; times, On anyone of those trips she | WOrk rooms, desk and a few other|initlated Into the mysterles of the|nurses' home, | might have saved the nuree a few |SMall Joba. | laboratory where, carefully guarded| or three hours off during the day, from the gaze of the idle curlous, or| When she is relieved for a rest, l-:uhl the general publie, stand in jars in all| nurse gets a half day off oncq & |steps by asking for her drink, But If by chance, sha has been unable vegardless of how busy the nurse may | 10 €rowd into her busy 12 hours the hospitals hundreds of the innermost|Week, and extra houts off on Bunday, secrets of her fellow citizens, The | inclu time to attend religlo Le (And she is, whoever she may be, | entire program, she is required to re- New Britain hospital has a very|service Three weeks' vacation ove ute , ; I port to the nurse in charge all un- .1.-11:: ::Il‘l..::-.-) FHBBALEA: MM finished work boefore she leaves the Today and Tomorrow — Subur- |y Sl o) ican and goes off wil. | floor. thoroughly equipped laboratory, as|given every summer between ban Days will find many extra B, 00 yardly has she stepped from 85 Minutes To Dress, one of the features of its institution, | and October, She also has certaln periods when Each nurse has her own desk In she attends class and Jearns the[her room, the desks having been values here in that section of the ward than a bell| While the duties of the day nurse things which afterwards help to|bullt at the state trade school. 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Speclal— $10.75. falled to answer within 10 minutes is made, and may possibly reach the COamel's Hair, Tweed and Dressy Suite—A large group, speclal- hospital officlals, 3 She Is Kept Busy ly priced for Suburban Days Every minute untll into the night when the patients finally drop off to sleep, she Is busy flying back and forth, now here, now there, ndminis- tering to the care and comforts of the sick and afflicted. Her life is laid out like a railroad schedule with a new time table every day. Her discipline is as strict as any military training, and in addition she is at the beck and call of the sick and afflicted, those who are in pain and those who think she 1s a servant placed there for their personal pleasure, —$39.76. Camel’s Hair and Imported Mix- ture Ooats — Very attractive models—priced for Suburban Days at $39.75. nurse is somewhat as follows: At 7 she goes on duty and her first duty is to hear the day report from the head nurse or her assistant. From 8 until 9, she is busy with medica- tlons and treatments of patients. Al- The routine schedule for the night| | shoulders of the individual because | there is more help, The day nurse | must roll out of bed promptly on the stroke of 6 every morning and in 35 | minutes by the clock she must pre- | sent herselt for breakfast, At 7 o'clock she goes on duty, and immediately take the pulse, tem- perature and respiration of the pa- jtients. Serving of breakfast trays | follows. This entire job must be finished At 8, baths begin. Private room tients get a bath every day, semi-p vate every other day and ward pa- tients once a week. As though this were not enough for two hours' work, the balance of the time until 10 | o'clock is devoted to the dispensing of clean linen to the various beds. At 10 o'clock nourishments, consisting of milk, ete., are given to the patients where they are advisable. Then come the dusting and cleaning of rooms and wards, work rooms, diet kitch- en, ete. At noon comes the taking of fem- perature, pulse and respiration again hears the report of the night nurse in an hour and breakfast concluded. | make her a life saver in many an instance, She Is given hygenical in- struction, taught the bones and other vital parts of the body, all the first ald treatments, effects of medi- | cines, antldotes for poisons and proper | dlets for varlous kinds of sickness, But the life of a nurse is not by any means all hard work, In the New | Britaln General hospital's modern | nurses' home dances, card parties, so- |elals and other social functions are | held from time to time. ! Many Forget. | Although the scope of usefulness for a graduate nurse {8 almost bound- ‘Iflsx, many things conspire to make her life happy and pleasant while she is “In tralning.”” Sometimes a pa. tient keeps the usual promise and in- | vites the nurse to her home after leaving the institution. The peculiar feature of this character of invita- tion is that patients generally extend an invitation when they are in the hospital, but meny forget it the minute they leave, | Hospital nurses are in receipt al- | most all the time of invitations to social functions throughout the city, and they In turn reciprocate by invit- summer it {8 planned to bulld a ten. nis court near the nurses' home, There 18 at the prosent time need for from six to 10 new student nurses at the New Britain training school, The educational requirements for ad- mission are those prescribed by the Connecticut state bhoard of registra- tion for nurses, which require at least one year high school work. Women of superior education are the prefer. ence, provided they meet the require. ments in other particulars, Candidates must be between the ages of 18 and 35 years, of average health, weight and of good physique. A physical certificate of health from family physiclan must be presented with each application. Application for admission should be made to the directress of the training school by letter or in per. son. Candidates if admitted, must serve a probation term of two months, and if they pass the required exam- inations of the course, and have given satisfaction in all other re- spects, are accepted into the training spects, are accepted into the training school. The rules of the training school are Hore the student 1s taught and practices the technique of each pro-! cedure bofore being called upon to perform these dutics for the patient, In the class room, models, skele- tons and manikins are provided for Jdemonstration purpos Examinations are held at the ter- mination of each subject: A mini. mum of 75 per cent is required to pass. The diploma of the school is award- ed to those who have completed the full course and have maintained the required standard and eonduct, This diploma admits the graduate to the state board of nurses examina- tions for the degree of “R. N.” { What They feam A summary of the subjects taught student nurses in the training echool connected with the New Britain Gen- eral hospital includes the following subjects: Practical nursing, nursing ethics, anatomy, physlology, bandag- ing, materia medica, bacteriology, dietics, hygiene, sanitation, solutions, obstetrics, contaglous diseases, medi- cal nursing, children’s diseases, psy- chology of * nursing, - surgical tech- throat, emergencies, mental diseases (treating on the relation Dbetween mental and physical ilis); hygiene and morality (including lectures on social causes of disease and the value of educational campaigns) and massage. BERLIN HORROR STRICKEN. Receive Sentence of Krupp leaders With Astonishment. By The Assoclated Press, Berlin, May 9.—The sentence pasged on Baron Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and his colleagues are greeted with indignation and horror by the entire Berlin press. Even the communist paper Rote Fahne describes the sentences as “monstrous,” The newspapers unan- imously agree that innocent German citlzens are being punished merely to save the prestige of Premier Poin- care. The general view seems to be that the Worden courtmartial's ver dict can scarcely improve the pros- pects of good relations Dbetween ‘ and this 1s followed by the serving of | dinner trays. ‘lnx their friends to the nurses’ home Before Visitors Come. | for similar affairs, A theater ex- In the afternoon the nurse starts|change under the direction of Miss at 1 o'clock making a general round Maude E. Traver {8 conducted at the of patlents, straightening out pillows, | local hospital and hardly a show {arranging bedding, and making pa-|comes to the city but what a supply tients comfortable wherever possible | Of extra tickets reaches the hospital. ! before the ward visiting hour. |Nurses in uniform are seldom The period during the visiting hour | ¢harged admission at moving picture consists of catering generally to the|theaters. wants and needs of patients until 3 The course of instruction covers a o’clock, when ward visitors gre re-|period of 2% years, including the two quired to leave, and the afternoon|months’ probation period, and it is land evening care of patients starts. |claimed by hospital authorities to be At 4 o'clock the nurse again takes| ‘one of the most useful and satisfy- the pulse, temperature and respira-|ing professions which any woman can tion of the patients, making the| cnter.” | rounds of all the private rooms and Every afternoon from 2:30 until ward patients on the floor within an!3:30 afternoon tea is served in the cohol rubs, and other minor com- France and Germany. forts are included. Such errands as answering many 'phone calls, arrang- | ing bouquets, getting water for pa- tients, arranging plllows, ete., ete, are extra jobs which must be worked in without interfering with the sched- ule, At 9 o'clock she must diplomatical- ly and politely but firmly advise all| visitors that it is time to leave. Pa- tients are made ready for their night's rest, windows are opened and lights go out. Between this time and midnight she makes up her chart, giving a| complets record of the patient up until 12 o'clock. 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