State Registration for Nurses (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...professional nursing, and shall include the following subjects, namely: Practical nursing, surgical nursing, obstetrical nursing, hygiene, contagion, diet cooking, materia medica, anatomy, physiology, gynecology, and all other matters deemed necessary and proper by said Board to be required of to establish the fitness and qualification of the applicant. Sec. 7. All graduate nurses, who are honorably engaged in nursing at the time of the passage of this Act, and have been residents of the State of Kentucky for six months prior thereto, and who shall show to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is of good moral character and was graduated from training-school connected with a special hospital or infirmary or a general hospital of good reputation at such school, and who in other respects meets the requirements of this Act, shall be entitled to be registered and given a certificate of registration without examination, provided the written application to be so registered shall be filed by such persons with the secretary of the Board on or before August 1, 1914, and all persons who have in good faith been honorably engaged in the practice of trained nursing under a diploma received by them prior to the year 1893, after one year's training in a reputable school, shall in like manner be entitled to a certificate of registration without examination upon the payment of the registration fee of ten dollars. All nurses in training at the time of the passage of the Act in a reputable trainingschool supplying a systematic training, corresponding to the above standard, provided they graduate therefrom, shall, upon receiving a diploma from said school, be entitled in like manner to register without examination. Sec. 8. Applicants shall be registered and given a cert...