Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — A Training School for Nurses. [ARTICLE]

A Training School for Nurses.

A training school for nurses will be opened soon in the New York Hospital. The class will be limited to twelve. Applicants must be between the ages of twenty and thirty-five, strong, healthy, have a fair English education, and bring certificates of good character from satisfactory sources. The course of instruction will include practical and theoretical teaching in medical, surgical and special nursing, bandaging, etc., and elementary lessons in anatomy, physiology and hygiene. It will extend over two years. At the end of the first year a second class will be taken in, and the first class will become head nurses of wards for the second year. At the end of this year they will, after passing a satisfactory examination, be graduated and receivethe diploma of the school. The whole number in training at any' one time will thus be twenty-four. One month of each year will be passed in the kitchen and one month in the laundry. Each of these departments will be directed by a skillful and experienced head. The instruction in the kitchen will include plain cooking, and all the varie ties of special diet, the various gruels, porridges, broths, soups, beef tea and essence, panada ana similar preparations. In the laundry, plain and fancy washing ana ironing will be taught, the use of the various soaps and cleansing preparations, their effect on the material of the articles washed, etc. It is intended that the graduates shall be not only good nurses, bat good housekeepers. It is believed that the instruction given will be an ample equivalent for all services rendered. An allowance will be made, however (for clothes), of ten dollars a month for the first year and sixteen dollars a month for the second. It is thought that graduates will command wages at all times equal to the highest rate paid in the country for similar services, now varying from” ten to thirty dollars a week, accord ing to circumstances. —Y. Y. Evening Pott. —The new spring suit of clothes is more than ever a work of art. It is the most striped, ringed, streaked, speckled and checkered thing ever brought to public notice. It sits a man as a Cossack sits his horse, and looks for all the world as though made from the wool of Jacob’s spotted sheep, or some of their direct descendants. It fairly makes a man dizzy to look at one of these new suits, ana angry to see the owner strut around in it. Especially is this so when the man can’t afford to have one himself. Chicago Journal.