Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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-. - -... A , sci-1o.OL or ,NURSING g EDUCATION THROUGH CORRE- SPONDENCE ' WE do not claim that our instruction can ever supersede the Work- of the hospital training school, or that our students are at once- able to enter the profession on equal footing with the nurse of hospital training, who has spent three years in prepara- tion. But, for the great majority of Women who have the require- ments to make successful nurses, it is not a question Whether three years hospital training are better than our correspondence course, but Whether a Woman of average intelligence Who can- not get or does not desire hospital training can yet prepare herself adequately for a life-Work by a correspondence course especially designed to meet the theoretical and practical demands of private nursing. i r According to the latest census statistics, nine' out of every ten nurses are not hospital trainedg and if The Chautauqua School of Nursing did no more than to bring to this great number f+-over 100,000-the latest results of modern medical, surgical, and nursing research, it would have fulfilled its function and justified its right to be. . t But' our home-study method has done moreg it has given thousands of ambitious Women who desired to become nurses an equipment and training of the very highest order which they could not have obtained in any other Way. -f By our correspondence plan a great many students begin to have some income after a few months of study, and by the time they graduate have generally established a reliable practice. Then, in the next year or two, because of the special preparation they have received for private nursing, they are thoroughly established in their community. The Chautauqua School of Nursing correspondence method brings the essential elements of hospital training to the pupil, and there is an advantage in this method not to be .overlooked --each pupil is in a class by herself. She may study her lesson for as long or as short a time as she may Wish. She can come up for examination on each ,lesson whenever she pleases. There is 23 - A Plain Statement

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Eur Mlfiauiirauunylunaioirlluunuul Q1 mf Nnraiinim C23 STUDIES IN GENERAL NURSINQ HYPODERMIC MEDICATION Treatment by medicine injected under the skin Qsubcutaneously5 is known as hypodermic medication. This method of ad- ministering remedies is easily understood and carried out. If the needle' is sharp and the injection is given slowly it is almost painless. A To Give a Hypodermic Injection 1. Withdraw the Wire from the needle lfFig. 85. Al- ways keep this wire in the needle when the syringe is not in use. 2. Sterilize the - Syringe.-Draw the barrel full of pure alcohol several times QF ig. 95. ' . 3. Sterilize the Needle.-Place it in a large spoon con- taining a small quantity of water. Hold the spoon over an alcohol lamp, gas-jet, or other small flame until the water has boiled for a minute QFig. 105. Leave the needle in the spoon fand the water5 while you proceed with the next steps. fSee the large spoon in Figure 11.5 4. Sterilize the Water.--Thelnext step is sterilizing the water for the solution. Place the amount required Cusually a small half-teaspoonful5 in the spoon and bring it to a boil over the flame fFig. 115. - ' - 5. Make the Solution.-Drop the hypodermic tablet into this boiled water and if the tablet does not readily dissolve stir the solution with the end of the syringe barrel fwhich has pre- viously been sterilized in alcohol5. Care must be taken that every part of the tablet is dissolved QFig. 125. Use only SPECIMEN PAGE FROM A LECTURE CREDUCEI? oNE-HALF5 A collection of specimen 'pages will gladly be sent upon request. 22 -

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g THE? or-IAUTAUQUA no one to disturb her in the preparation of her lessons, nor any fear or timidity at examination caused by the presence of a large class. Our correspondence method insures a thoroughness of study which authorities concede can never be insisted upon in the classroom. We attain a high standard because every student is asked to study every sentenced and every paragraph until she has mastered it. In the classroom examination a student may fail because of nervousness or because she happens to forget for the moment the answers to particular questions. And on the other hand, a student oftentimes will pass satisfactory exam- inations because she has been fortunate enough to be asked ques- tions to which she has happened to know the right answers. There is no ' 'luck in our correspondence method, nor can the student delude herself. A student in the correspondence method knows that she knows or knows that shedoesn't know, and that is the foundation of all knowledge. The correspondence study department of the University of Chicago states that the method of well-selected questions and carefully written answers is the best possible way of gauging the student 's progress and correcting faulty habits of work. il' 'F 'l' In correspondence teaching, if the questions are properly framed, every lesson is a satisfactory test, for hurry and carelessness, and bad judgment are sure to leave their mark. Hence, the correspondence student, who knows her work will be tested, is more likely to form careful and thoughtful reading habits than the student in the college classf' As we have already stated, there is a certain kind of hospital training that cannot be gained through correspondence, but it is well to bear in mind that it requires three years to get this experience, so that we have no hesitation in saying that, in the same period Qabout one year of studylwith us, and two years after graduationl, those whom we train acquire an experience which, for the purposes to which they are going to put it--private nursing-is quite as valuable, and they are earning agood living all the time. 24,