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.

Date:
[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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    contains. For these reasons it forms a reliable guide to the profession of nursing and to those who are en- gaged in it. Training and Afterwards. The initial step for an intending probationer is to con- sider where she can best secure the highest training which will ensure her a position in the first rank of her pro- fession when she obtains her certificate. Probationers and their friends do not sufficiently realise that it is far better to wait for a vacancy in a recognised training school, the certificate of which will give her a definite standing, than to take a so-called probationership in a very small institution, which cannot afford her full facilities to com- plete her training in a satisfactory manner. It is desirable that every nurse with adequate experience and training should be able to command a certificate which will pass muster wherever she may present herself as a candidate for work. The time is approaching when provision will be made whereby all nurses, wherever trained, who may desire to do so, will be afforded an opportunity of offering themselves for examination before some central authority, the certificate of which will rank with the best. Until this time arrives it is essential for each woman who aspires to be a nurse to consult some one with knowledge and to take their advice before engaging herself to work in a relatively small institution where the facilities for training are limited or inadequate. Before entering one of the larger institutions the can- didate would be well advised to clearly ascertain the hours of work, the amount of off-duty time and whether it is ever interfered with, the amount of the annual holiday, if probationers are encouraged to save by joining the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses or otherwise, the nature of the sleeping accommodation and the facilities afforded for methodical instruction in all branches of a nurse’s work. These points are all important and, failing other friendly counsel, an intending probationer would be well