41237 State Charities Aid Association OFFICE 6 EAST FOURTEENTH STREET NEW YORK REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HOSPITALS DECEMBER 23, 1872 TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES TO BE ATTACHED TO BELLEVUE NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, PRINTERS 182 FIFTH AVENUE LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY A.44466 SEP 22 1903 THE following Report No. 1 of the publications of the STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION on the establishment of a "Training School for Nurses to be attached to Bellevue Hospital" being frequently called for and out of print a new and revised edition is now issued. The School was established according to the scheme proposed by the Association in this Report and has been in successful operation for four years and a half. It started with the charge of three wards in Bellevue, by a Superintendent and five nurses, it has now thirteen wards and a staff of fiftyfive nurses. During this period thirty-nine nurses have graduated and received diplomas, who are now occupied either in nursing cases of severe illness in private families or filling responsible posts in Hospitals. As this school is the first established in the United States for instruction in all the branches of nursing, and as the Managers are constantly applied to for information on the subject, it has been deemed desirable to publish in an appendix to this report, extracts from the fourth annual report of the school which contains certain rules and principles for the management of a Training School, which the experience of the Managers lead them to regard as fundamental. December 1st, 1877. OF THE HOSPITAL COMMITTEE OF THE State Charities Aid Association DECEMBER 23, 1872 The State Charities Aid Association is composed of ladies and gentlemen who propose to establish Local Visiting Committees for the Almshouses, Hospitals, and other Public Institutions of Charities throughout the City and State of New York. Their object, according to their constitution, is twoföld, viz. : "Ist. To promote an active public interest in the New York State Institutions of Public Charities, with a view to the physical, mental, and moral improvement of their pauper inmates; 2d. To made the present pauper system more efficient, and to bring about such reforms in it as may be in accordance with the most enlightened views of Christianity, science and philanthrophy." The Association began its work in New York City, through its Local Visiting Committee for Bellevue Hospital. Sixty ladies for the past year visited weekly all the wards of this Hospital. They have acquainted themselves with all the details of its management, have sat by the bedside of every patient to soothe, comfort, and relieve, and they have been rewarded for their efforts by the consciousness that their labors. have not been in vain. |