Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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Elite Mtnsutauguaiufinuul Q it Nursiuim lfgfl Vol. XI ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT 1912 THE existence of The Chautauqua School of Nursing is due to the rapidly growing demand on the part of thousands of women for a sound, scientific, and practical training in nursing which can be acquired in a relatively brief time, in their own homes without interfering with their present vocation, and without the arduous and rigorous .labor of a three years' course in a hospital. r ' A ' The rapid' growth of our school proves that we have ade- quately satistied this demand. From an enrollment cy' less than two hundred the first year, the classes have steadily grown until the total enrollment has passed 12,000, while last year's class exceeded 52000. This growth is explained, first, by the fact that between the fields occupied on the one hand by the untaught ' 'practical ' ' nurse and on the other by the hospital trained nurse Qwhose fee is prohibitive to over 85 per cent. of those who need skilled nursingj, there exists the largest field of usefulness now open to Women. Few realize that the total number of nurses grad- uated from the hospitals of the country 'falls far short of the demand for skilled assistants in the sick-room. As a matter of fact, not over ten per cent. of the nurses now engaged in practice are graduates from training schoolsg while on the other hand, a very large percentage of ' 'practical- nurses fail to reach the highest standard of excellence because of lack of training under expert guidance and acquaintance with the latest results of medical research. ' 3

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I. II III IV V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. I CONTENTS A I PAGE METHOD OF TRAINING, IN DIAGRAM. .. . ........................Ins1deoffrontcover INTRODUCTION . ................ . ............ 3 THE SPIRIT oP OUR WORK. ............. 5 WHAT .THE CHAUTAUQUA SCHOOL OE NURSING HAS DONE ........ I ........... 6-7 How WE TRAIN . I. A General Outline of the Method ..... . . . 8 II. A Story of the Course. . .' ........ .... . 13 THE STUDY MATERIAL What it is and How it was Prepared .' ...... ' ..... 11 How oUR STUDENTS GET PRACTICE ...... 17 THE EXPERIENCED NURSE .............. zo TI-IE HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL GRAD- y UATE ................... ....... ..... 2 0 PREPARATION FOR HOSPITAL TRAINING 21 ,EDUCATION THROUGH CORRESPONDENCE 23 COMMENDATION By Students, Physicians, and Medical Journals. .26 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS .............. .,.29 TUITION AND ENROLLMENT Terms, Qualifications, Time Required, Certifi- I cate of Graduation .......... , ................ 33 ,THE LECTURES IN DETAIL .... .sv SUMMARY ................................... 53 COMMENT BY MEDICAL JOURNALS ..... . . .56 Copyright 1911 By The Chautauqua School of Nursing

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l l THE GHAUTAUQUA , 1 Second, the growth has been the result of the cordial recep- . tion given to our graduates by the medical profession, which ,- has recognizedthe value of a trained -nurse assistant who has l 4' imbibed our fundamental idea: The nurse is an expert helper, - not a physician. . s ,al la Third, the growth has been aided by the strong and cordial oi editorial commendation in the most conservative realm of pro- fessional magazines-the medical journals-to many of whose editors our complete course has been submitted for review. ' if Andfourth, the complete Chautauqua course has attained I its present high standing because it represents an expenditure . tl of many thousands of dollars and years of unsparing effort 11 in the gathering, arrangement, and classification of material in order to .produce the most effective method of training by s correspondence. f The method of The Chautauqua School of 'Nursing is not t I an experiment, but the perfected results attained by ten years' I study of practically every standard text-book on medical, i surgical, and obstetrical nursingg a g l supplemented by a careful selection therefrom of the 2 material necessary for all the practical needs of the sick- room, and the elimination of all unnecessary details, improved by a corps of able physicians who constantly - supervise every lesson that the student receives, . modified by the experiences of the largest body of profes- sional nurses ever educated under a single methodg and, i A adapted particularly to the needs of those who are preparing to nurse, not in hospitals particularly, but 'in the home. 4