Rex Hospital School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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U55 Cgcfioof of wzabz HE Rex Hospital School of Nursing was opened in 1894. The school was estab- lished on an educational basis, fillil the stu- dents are given the advantage of progres- sive changes in nursing education. The aiin throughout the three-year course is to give to the patient the best possible nursing care, and to the student nurse the kind of train- ing that will prepare her for a profession with unlimited possibilities and deep hunian need. The capacity of the hospital and the gen- eral out-patient departinent affords ample clinical material for the students, both as to the nurnber and variety of cases. The student nurse has a rich and varied experi- ence in inedical, surgical, obstetrical, pediaf tric, psychopathic, laryiugologif-al, gyneco- logical, ophtlialniological, and orthopedic nursing. .Instructions with practice are also given in the operating rooin, diet kitchen, and out-patient department. The Rex Hospital School of Nursing is listed among the accredited schools for nurses in the United States. Graduates of this school a1'e eligible for nieinbership in all local and national organizations. They are also eligible for service in the Anicrican Red Cross and in the Ariny and Navy Corps. El6?26'l'L

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Zito 'ty of cbloifzifczf N 1839 John Rex, a native of Penn- sylvania and one of the earliest settlers of Raleigh, bequeathed his property for the establishment of a hospital for the sick and atllicted poor of the City of Raleighf' Dating from 1839, Rex Hospital is the oldest incorporated hospital in North Caro- lina, and the first to have a School of Nursing. On August 4, 1893, the trustees bought the old Manly Mansion. The building was repaired, and an annex of two stories for colored patients was erected. The Work was organized, nurses were engaged and the hospital opened for patients May 1, 1894. The Raleigh Academy of Medicine agreed to give their service to charity in rotation. In 1896, an eight-room annex was built for paying patients. A cornerstone for a new building was laid at a massive ce1'emony in 1908. The hospital continued to grow and on May 31, 1937, the hospital was moved in another new building on St. Marys St. It is now a two-hundred bed hospital that qualifies under the standard of the Ameri- can College of Surgeons as an accredited hospital, and is recognized by the American Medical Association for the training of internes. z 4 Ten

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