Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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Simplicity of Pre- sentation Adapted to Brief Study y Periods The Pioneer School is-'ij MU QUA .es course exactly meets the requirement of the medical profession, and that it can be acquired Qbecause it deals only in essentialsj Within the relatively brief time required. The principal objects that We had in mind in the preparation and arrangement of our lectures were to present the material in the simplest possible languageg to present the simple and familiar before -the complex and unusualg and to join the theory with the practice so closely that the student should 'rind herself after each lecture a decided step nearer her goal. Again and again our students, in speaking of this aspect of the course have remarked on its absorbing and increasing interest. r y ' ' The more I study the course the more I am impressed with its prac- tical value. -Mrs. Missouri A. Hill, Fort Robinson, N eb. ' ' The lectures are written in a clear, concise, comprehensive manner, systematically arranged, each one seeming to be a complement to the pre- ceding lecturef'-Mrs. A. N. Way, Portland, Mich. ' ' The work soon proved so fascinating that every moment at my dis- posal was delightfully spent in its studyf'-Sister M. Ebba, Convent of Sarwta Maria in Ripa, St. Louis, Mo. p Every aspect of the subject of every lecture is treated in a separate paragraph. The object .of this subdivision is to enable the student to take advantage of every portion, large or small, of her spare time for purposes of study. Those who cannot devote all theirtime to study will readily appreciate the benefit derived through this plan of subdivision. The central idea of almost every paragraph is emphasized by a brief state- ment printed in bold faced type in the margin. The Chautauqua School of Nursing is the pioneer in its Held, and it cannot be too strongly emphasized that its course, based upon the experience of thousands Whom it has trained for private nursing, contains the most valuable collection of sick- room procedures that has ever been included in any one single course. T 10

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scHooL or NURSING Second-Accompanying each lecture is a detailed ' 'study-help ' ' which directs the attention of the student to the point of special importance in every paragraph. These study-helps are in the nature of reviews, aiding the student to grasp and fix the gist of the lectures, and to ,prepare her for examination. I X Third-Bedside practice in the student's home. Fourth-Practical directions for use by the student in simpler cases of nursing Qfor charity or small remunerationj in .order to gain confidence and experience. Fifth -Certain features which are not possessed by any other correspondence school, i. e., we require only a small portion of the entire fee to be paid in adfvanceg and furthermore, any student who feels hersey' 'dissatisfied with the course after two months' study may withdraw and receive back all the money she has paid. Each lecture possesses a distinct value in what it omits. It is oftentimes based upon literally a whole library of text-books, and contains every vital and essential point that has any bear- ing on the subject treatedg but, everything is omitted not absolutely essential. Discussion of various theoriesg knowledge which only the doctor requiresg unnecessarily exhaustive classi- ficationsg needlessly minute details of anatomy and physiologyg --these have no place in our practical lectures. It is not for a moment to be inferred, however, that we encourage our students in superficiality. On the contrary, we believe the best nurse is the one who continues to be the student, and for this reason we urge further study of special topics, which study we are glad to direct, and for which service no tuition fee is required. Our experience has taught us that the medical practitioner Wants a competent assistant in charge of the patient and not a con- sulting physician. The nurse, therefore, is furnished, through our lectures, with sufficient medical knowledge to enable her to cooperate intelligently with the physician. And we have demonstrated, as hundreds of physicians have. certified, that our 9 . THE LECTURES Selection' A of Material

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fn., scHooL or NURSING :D THE STUDY MATERIAL What lt 1S and Hovv lt was Prepared S was stated ln the lntroductlon the sources of our study materlal are threefold first text books second our students third our faculty TEXT BOOKS In our use of the term text book We mean to include all prlnted material Practically all the standard llterature including text books and articles havlng any bear l d f nursln has mg on the theoretical or the practlca S1 e o g been searched ln order to form an absolutely thorough and authoritative foundation The last decade has Wltnessed what IS virtually a revo an fields of med1c1ne and surgery and natu lution in m y rally the profession of nursing has had to adapt itself in order f h to kee abreast of recent dlscoverles A great deal o t e P new material IS to be found only in learned volumes very h f ost otten printed 1n some foreign language out of reac o m students, but, through our course, brought directly to our pupils. OUR STUDENTS-Without our students the present Chautau- qua course in nursing would never have attained its high standard of thoroughness and effectiveness. After We had . . . I prepared our original course We soon discovered, throug 1 the questions which were put to us by our students, that there were hundreds of hitherto unconsidered problems due to the lack of appliances in the average homeg to the fact that exigencies were constantly arising WhlCh never arise ' ' ' ' ' ' ' bl nd exi- in connection with institutional nursing, pro ems a encies which had never been treated in Works on nursing. 8 To solve these problems and to prepare our students to meet these requirements became then our chief aim and duty. A Many physicians aided us with their advice, experiments A ' ctor -resultsg but by our own faculty brought many satisfa y .- Y Y! Z 4 f YL, - - ir' -Y---- .- , , . fr A ' ' Hi, n, -' f 1 . A-4 - ' its 5? ---- L-.,.- -.t. f . . of , - F, , , ' ,K 1 , , ,A g I O O Q 0 0 5 I' - O A. ' i ' 9 ' 3 9 - U I 9 9 ' n ni- , O T U l O I U I I Q Q 9 ' . 0 o 0 u ,o ' ' 9 O U I O . . O O I ' I O O O ' ' Q 9 O I O I A l O . Q A A c o o C 1 0 0 4 D . O . p11