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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    Sunderland Nursing* Institution, Borough Road, Sunderland. Telegraphic address—“ Nursing, Sunderland.” Beds, 3 for Paying Patients. Matron ; 30 Private Nurses, several of whom have monthly training in additional to general. After a personal interview (if possible), candidates must come 1 or 2 months on trial. They should be between 22 and 35 years of age, must produce satisfactory evidence as to character, education and health, and of having received at least: 2 years’ training in a general hospital (3 years preferred). Those desirous of being employed in maternity cases must hold midwifery or monthly nursing certificates besides one for general hospital training of not less than one year. One month’s notice of leaving given and required. Recreation according to the requirements of patients, not less than 1 hour for outdoor exercise every day being expected by the rules under which nurses are sent out; 3 weeks’ holiday in a year, and after 3 years 1 month. Fees charged. —Ordinary cases, £1 5s.; mental, £2 2s. per week; maternity, £6 6s. per month and £1 Is. registration fee ; infectious, £1 10s. per week, and £1 Is. on completion of engagement for quarantine expenses ; small-pox, £2 2s. a week and £2 2s. quarantine expenses. Salary, £32, rising £1 yearly to £35 per annum, and bonus according to length of service when funds allow. Board, lodging, laundry (when not at cases) and indoor and outdoor uniform provided. Nurses are recommended to join the Royal National Pension Fund. Swansea and South Wales Nursing* Institute, Brunswick Place, Swansea. Lady Superintendent; 35 Private Nurses. Candidates must come for 1 month on trial, must produce satis- factory evidence of character, education, health and physique, and must have received 3 years’ training in a general hospital. One month’s notice given and required. Recreation.—Nurses, by the rules under which they are sent out, must have 9 hours’ rest daily; 4 weeks’ holiday yearly. Fees charged.—Ordinary cases, £1 6s.; infectious, mental and massage, £2 2s. per week; maternity cases, £7 7s. a month. Salary, £35 to £40 and bonus. Board, lodging, laundry (when not at cases) and uniform provided. Swansea General Hospital Private Nursing* Staff. Matron ; 5 Nurses. Fees charged.—Medical and surgical cases, £1 6s. a week; in- fectious, £2 2s. ; 1 day or night, 5s.; attending operations, 7s. 6d. Salary, £30 to commence. Board, lodging, laundry, indoor and outdoor uniform are provided. For further particulars] seejpage 79,