Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing - White Caps Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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CHARTER constitute the Trustees or Directors of said School with full power to determine by a bylaw upon any number not less than seven as a quorum for the transaction of business and to State of Georgia, County of Fulton. I, G. H. Tanner, Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the flies and records of said Court of the application for Charter and Order of Court granting same to THE GRADY HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. Witness my hand and seal of said Court, this the 25th day of March 1898. ..,,ulllll.'q,,..' - DY '- ta'-J O ' , . ug ' x C ur no 1 a i 2 3. ix g .3 Clerk Superior Court, h , ' 0,- ' ,' Fulton, Ga. 's'., T' ' 'u.s ll fi . .'. V9-TL S Qi

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CHARTER To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of los. Hirsch, R. I. Lowry, W. A. Hemphill, W. L. Moore Geo. S. Lowndes E. W. Mar tin, H. L. Culberson, R. D. Spalding, I. W. English, Ir., and C. A. Collier, Mayor: composing the Bdard of Trus- tees ofthe Grady Hospital, and las. E. Baird, A. W. Calhoun, H. P. Cooper, W. S. Elkin, W. S. Kendrick, V. O. Hardon, C. C. Giddings, I. G. Ernest, W. P. Nicholson, Geo. H. Noble, C. D. Hurt, F. W. McRae and Dunbar Roy, the members of the Medical Board of the Grady Hospital, respectfully shows: 1. That they desire to be incorporated under the statues and laws of said State for such cases made and provided for a period of twenty years with the privilege of renewal under the name of THE CRADY HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 2. That a school by that name is about to be established in said County for the purpose of instructing and training persons in the art of nursing and caring for the sick and afflicted. 3. Petitioners pray that they and their legal successors be granted corporate authority to enforce good order in said school, to receive donations, make purchases and effect all alienations of realty and personality, not for the purpose of trade and profit but for promoting the general design of such institution, and to look after the general interest of such establishment, to grant diplomas to such as the faculty think deserve them, testifying to the qualifications of the persons to whom they may be issued, and to charge such fees for matri- culation, instruction, training, diplomas and other services as may be deemed proper. 4. Petitioners also pray that the Board of Trustees of said Grady Hospital as above constituted and their legal successors, and the medical Board of said Hospital as above constituted and their legal successors shall

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HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL OF NURSING GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - Thelma D. Robinson When the Nightingale era of nursing was only in its twenty-fifth year in America, the Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing received its charter and is today the oldest chartered nurses' training school in Georgia. The petition for charter was filed by the Board of Trustees and the Medical Board of Grady Memorial Hospital and approved on March 24, 1898. Grady, the hospital which was to provide the field for nursing practice, had been in operation as a municipal hospital since 1892. The interest of the Boards in training the nurse in the arts of caring for the sick, assured the students entering the school, then as now, a sound and well-planned course. The chartered training school has had a three-year diploma program since its inception. Miss Adah H. Patterson, a graduate of Iohns Hopkins, who was serving as superintend- ent of nurses and in charge of a two-year certificate program, was appointed the first director of the school. She set the standards in keeping with the patterns of the best school in the country. The student nurses received a stipend, which ranged from 89.00 to 315.00 per month, from 1898 to 1933, when it was discontinued. At that time the hospital assumed the respon- sibility for providing uniforms which heretofore the students had had to furnish. From 1898 to 1922, probationers were admitted to the school at any time during the year. The period of probation varied from one to three months, but was subsequently estab- lished at six months for all candidates accepted. It was in 1922 that the first class, as a group, was admitted to the school. From that date, two or three classes have been admitted annually according to the needs of the hospital. The first students were housed on the second floor of the hospital. In later years they were moved to the building at the corner of Coca Cola Place and Pratt Street, which was connected to the main building by a covered passage-way. The building, now known as Hirsch Hall annex, had been constructed for an Isolation Ward, but was never used for that purpose. As the student enrollment increased, additional dormitory facilities were provided on the first floor of the hospital. The curriculum of the school was planned to cover a three year period. Formal classes were held twice a week by the director, lecture courses were given by members of the Medical Board, and the students acquired nursing skills on the various hospital services under the supervision of the head nurses. As early as 1900, a diet kitchen was added in which the students received instructions in dietetics. However, it was not until 1918, that