Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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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

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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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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 .