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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...graduate nurses engaged in regular ward work. Next, hospital management is especially prominent. Thus in New York state, as an example, about fifty per cent, of all hospitals are managed by nurses. Such work requires good business knowledge and executive ability. In many instances the direction of the ...
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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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...graduate nurses engaged in regular ward work. Next, hospital management is especially prominent. Thus in New York state, as an example, about fifty per cent, of all hospitals are managed by nurses. Such work requires good business knowledge and executive ability. In many instances the direction of the training school for student nurses is also included in the duties of the hospital superintendent. The administration of training schools constitutes in itself an educational problem of imAdministra-Portance. There are, in the United tion of train-States, over sixteen hundred registered mg schools training schools attached to hospitals, with a yearly average of between forty and fifty thousand students. The heads or principals of these schools direct all the educational work of these women, and are also responsible for the management of the nursing department in the hospital. Practically all of these schools have one or more assistant superintendents--night superintendent, and day assistants, as well as a fairly Assistants large staff of graduate nurses in charge of departments as head nurses or supervisors. The duties of all these workers is two-fold--executive and instructive. The extension of classroom teaching, and especially the introduction of preparatory courses, made it necessary to assign certain Instructors staff nurses exclusively to teaching work. At first this was largely the teaching of practical nursing. Later the nurse-instructor took over the teaching of elementary sciences and some other subjects. Many large schools now have two or more full-time instructors. In other instances visiting instructors, who live at home and divide their time between several neighbouring hospitals, are employed. A few hospitals are now appointing...
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Add this copy of A Short History of Nursing to cart. $48.62, fair condition, Sold by Ladylisabooks rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chester, , UNITED KINGDOM, published 1938 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
