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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    At Guy’s Hospital applicants have to pass a satisfactory course of instruction and practical work in the preliminary nursing school, such course extending over six weeks. The fee for this course, including board and residence in the Henriette Raphael Nurses’ Home, is £6 6s., the pro- bationer providing indoor uniform and paying personal laundry. As mentioned on p. xxiii, some convalescent homes and cottage hospitals offer to give a certain amount of pre- liminary training to candidates who are too young to enter a general hospital. It must, however, be borne in mind that some of the general hospitals give the pre- ference to applicants who have not received any previous training. Poor Law Infirmaries. A list of these institutions will be found in the index. The majority of the large poor law infirmaries now train their own nurses, the length of the course being usually three years. The regulations are similar to those given on pages xxiii to xxix for general hospitals. In most of the Infirmaries nurses have the opportunity of taking out a course of midwifery and monthly nursing, and in a few a course of fever nursing as well. As regards pension, the nurses can, if they wish, come under the Poor Law Officers’ Superannuation Act of 1896, but owing to the strong representations made to those responsible for the 1896 Act a further Act was passed in 1897 to enable nurses to ‘‘ contract out ” of the provisions of the Act of 1896. The Midwives Act. The Midwives Act, passed ''to secure the better train- ing of Midwives and to regulate their practice,” became law in July, 1902. By its provisions* after the ist April, 1905, no woman may ‘‘take or use the title of midwife” unless certified under the Act (either as holding an ap- proved certificate, or as having been in bond fide practice for a year prior to July, 1902); and after the ist April, 1900, no woman may practise as a midwife, that is “ habit-