Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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::, 'fP1E 'GHAU1-FAUAQUAE LL. WHAT THE ECHAUTAUQUA scHo0L OF E NURSING HAS DONE I I. It has solved the problem 'of a vocation for thousands of women. ' IK It has- brought to the practical nurse E a. the latest methods in trained nursing, I lb. a simple and practical summary of the best research in the iield of medicine so far as it bears on her profession g c. an increase in remuneration through in- crease in efiiciency. III. It has brought expert helpers to physicians whose treatment has been hampered by lack of properly trained nurses. IV. It has given the hospital trained nurse ea. an opportunity to review her studies in the light of modern discoveries, and so to avoid the most dangerous pitfall- rutsg , i b. the conception of nursing from the home viewpoint as distinguished ' from the institutiona1. V. It has brought to the wife, mother, and sister a knowledge that has enabled them to care for the sick in their own households, and, of equal importance, to care for those in health. This knowledge of the ounce of prevention has not only saved the lives but increased the health of thousands, and result- ed in sturdier, healthier, brainier children. ARE YOU ONE WE CAN HELP? 6

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x sa - -- -....--...!l ,...., SCHOOL OF NURSING I n THE SPIRIT or OUR WORK r se of this school is to 'ui ambitious women THE P11 P0 , , eq P , through correspondence training, for a vocation promising large independence and adequate returns, and to give nurses already in practice the best modern methods with the assurance of commensurate increase in their remuneration. 0 The school holds out no unwarranted inducements. The spirit of our work is exemplified in the unique statement at the top of page 35. We seek as students only those 'whom we can help. For this reason every enrollment is accepted with the provisions that the student may receive her money back at the end of two months she is dissatisfied with her course of training. We give our best eforts to the individual requirements of every student. From her first association with the school, the student finds her work adequately and carefully guided, and that she is not left for even a day without a definite plan for study and prac- ' ' ' ' learl settin tice. From the first lecture she has directions c y g forth not only what to study, but how to study most eifectivelyg and, if shehas had no experience in nursing, the directions will enable her to master every step through our intensely interesting system for home practice of nursing methods. Ten years' work, with more than 12,000 students, has given us a confidence in the effectiveness of our trainlng methods that is absolute. The success of our work is not open to ques- tiong the prospective student need consider only whether she will undertake what so many others have accomplished. y Every day sees more students and graduates of the school enter upon their work as nursesg every mail brings word of success, either from the graduate herself, from patient, or from physician. Every monthis list of graduates records the estab- lishment of Chautauqua nurses in villages and towns which had previously had no competent professional nurseg every month's record of enrollments contains the names of many who realize the opening for a Chautauqua nurse in their village, town, or city, and who intend to be the ones to meet the demand. 5 .

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- t I 'I I - sf 5.4 an , , I pg , I Iii SCHOGL OF NURSING I I I WHAT THE CHAUTAUQUA SCHOGL OF Q NURSING HAS DONE I I I VI. It has provided a great number of women, with I others dependent upon them, a means of i livelihood and a remuneration such as they could have obtained in no other way. I VII. It has given a 'field of greater usefulness and greater remuneration to a large number whose. best efforts could not otherwise bring more than a merely nominal return. VIII. It has given more congenial occupation even though the previous vocation had been quite as remunerative. . I IX. It has given hundreds of small communities an I ' expert, trained, reliable nurse. t I I I I I I I X. It has given matrons in educational institutions I I I and sisters of charity a knowledge not to be ' ' t because of I f estimated in dollars and cen s, its value to the large, number of pupils entrusted to their care. , XI. It has enabled many women in middle life I ' eminently fitted for this vocation, to realize . . . . ph I I their ambition, who otherwise would ave I I I 1 been debarred from the training by the age I I I limit of 35 ixed by the hospitals. I XII. It has not only prepared many women for the I I I demands to be made later upon them as wife I and mother, but has proved the support I Cin many cases the only oney of the entire family when accident or death deprived it of the support of the husband or father. ARE YoU ONE WE CAN HELP? I I I 7 I I I I I I I I I I I I