How to become a nurse : the nursing profession : how and where to train, being a guide to training for the profession of a nurse, with particulars of nurse training schools in the United Kingdom and abroad and an outline of the prinicipal laws affecting nurses, etc. / edited by Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B.

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[1905?]
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Credit: How to become a nurse : the nursing profession : how and where to train, being a guide to training for the profession of a nurse, with particulars of nurse training schools in the United Kingdom and abroad and an outline of the prinicipal laws affecting nurses, etc. / edited by Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nurse and probationer has a separate bedroom. So far as we have been able to get returns, we have noted this point in the detailed particulars which follow. Pension Arrangements.—But few hospitals have a super- annuation fund for their nurses when past work, but since the establishment of the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses this has been rendered less important than it was before, as most nurses, if they join the Fund when they are probationers, can manage to make provision for old age and ill-health. An increasing number of hospitals have now a system whereby all the nurses who join the Pension Fund have half the premium paid for them by the institution. Paying Probationers.—A few of the schools take paying probationers, who, as a rule, come to the institution for three months, six months or one year’s training, paying at the rate of about £j. is. a week for board and lodging. These paying probationers are under the same rules as the ordinary probationers, except that they are exempt from night duty, and in institutions where there are no ward maids they do not have to keep the wards clean, except so far as dusting and light work is concerned. No salary is paid, and uniform and washing are not provided. Paying probationers, if they desire it, may often after their year’s training continue in the hospital as ordinary proba- tioners for the full three years. In fact many matrons in filling up the vacancies amongst the ordinary probationers give preference to those candidates who are serving as pay- ing probationers and have shown themselves to be suitable. Preliminary Training. The London Hospital has now a course of six weeks’ preliminary training for a limited number of selected candidates, who wish to become regular probationers in the hospital. Instruction, board, and lodging is provided free of expense at a residence especially reserved for pupils, and an allowance of 2s. 6d. per week is made for washing in the hospital laundry. The pupils receive instruction in, and are required to perform, such house-