Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

Page 15 text:

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

Page 14 text:

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

Page 16 text:

s M57-i Q- t Q s J .THE,QI:1AUTAUQUA . F 'l by soliciting thesaid of our students and graduates we found that a great many of them had had these very problems to face and swerevery glad' to tell us the way in which they had solved them. The best of these solutions and expedients have now been incorporated into our course, thus making it the epitome of practical experience of thousands of women under every condition of private nursing-a mass of practical material not to be found ,in text-books nor infact anywhere outside of our course. r Again, our students have taught us how best to teach.. They have been of ,invaluable service in suggesting to us many improvements in the arrangement of the course, the forder of the lessons, the method of presentation, the de- velopment of the study-helps, reviews, examinations, etc. And just as we have incorporated the suggestions of our students in our lessons on the practical side of private nursing, so our course presents the material in the light of the experience of several thousand -women who were or are being trained under. our direction. It will be apparent that no other institution has been able to avail itself 'of a like source of information. . a t a OUR FACULTY-Our faculty has spared no pains to select and collate they material which goes to make up our course. Their particular work, however, has-been not only to take the best that the text-book contains, but to eliminate every- thing not absolutely necessary for the training of a pro- fessional nurse. But the chief contribution of our faculty lies in this: they have not merely prepared a series of lectures and questions, leaving the student thereafter in the hands of inexperienced clerks. 'Just the reverse: they con- tinue to keep in close touch with the student. from the be- ginning to the end of her course, aiding her in every possible way to master the subject in theory and in practice, answer- ing every special question to which she seeks an answerg and giving the physician's viewpoint on problems of nurs- ing during, and even after, the completion of her study. 12 P .' -sf- O H1 71 J P-1 cn FJ O Hi Pd 'Cl srcrrssmd sr LN