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Proceedings of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress; Washington, U.S.A., Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916 Volume 5 (Paperback)
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Proceedings of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress; Washington, U.S.A., Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916 Volume 5 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...has 12 college women in its
training school at this time, while out of 200 students in the
Johns Hopkins Training School 25 have university degrees. The next
problem is the nature and scope of the course to be given in the
training school itself. It is a matter of common knowledge that few
such schools are to-day in a position to give to their pupils the
training necessary to fit them adequately for the work of health
nursing. Over a thousand such schools have come into existence
since 1890, but their establishment has often been inspired less by
educational ideals than by the desire to obtain unpaid assistance
in the routine work of the hospitals with which they are connected.
Too often standards of admission, which are of such importance in a
profession demanding unusual physical and mental and personal
qualifications, are sacrificed to the need for student nurses to do
the work. Too often the applicant, once admitted, is subject to
severe conditions of overwork and underfeeding and poor living
accommodations. Always there are the educational weaknesses
inherent in an undertaking which is not primarily educational in
aim. The course is apt to be carelessly planned, the teachers those
who chance to be available, the teaching what they happen to find
it easiest to gi.vc, and the laboratory equipment hopelessly
inadequate. Most fundamental of all is the problem of time. It is
absurd to attempt to train the nurses we need for the public-health
campaign by a course which involves two or three hours a week of
theory and 50 to 6O hours in the wards, not hours of clinical
instruction, but for the most part a routine of unenlightening and
exhausting manual work. The relation between the hospital and the
training school should be a symbiotic one;...
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