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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    mental cases, £1 11s. 6d. ; massage cases, £2 2s. per week ; maternity, £6 6s. per month. Salary, from £24 per annum, with bonus out of the net profits of the institution, and extra fees for mental, massage and infectious cases. Board, lodging, laundry (when not at cases), indoor uniform are provided. Probationers.—Candidates without previous hospital training are also received and trained for private nursing* Applications average 400, and vacancies 50 to 60 yearly. After a personal interview with the Board and 3 months’ trial, applicants are sent to the Mercers Hospital, Dublin ; Crumpsall Infirmary, Manchester; City Hospital, Birmingham, and have to serve the institution for a further 2 years. Salary, 1st year, £10; 2nd year, £15. Paying probationers are also received. Premium, £30. Dublin.—Dr. Steeven’s Hospital Private Nurs- . ingr Department. Superintendent. Fees charged.—Ordinary cases, £1 Is. ; mental and fever cases, £1 11s. 6d.; massage, £2 2s. per week. For further particulars see page 90. Dublin.—Fever Hospital and House of Re- covery Private Nursing* Staff, (Weir Nurses’ Home). Lady Superintendent; 10 Nurses. The private nurses are always taken from those trained in the hospital. Fees charged.—£1 lls*. 6d. per week. Salary, £20 per annum with uniform, and a percentage of their earnings. For particulars see page 209. Dublin.—lYIater lYlisericoridae Hospital Private Nursing Staff. Lady Superior ; 30 Nurses. Only nurses trained in the hospital employed. Fees.—Medical, surgical and fever cases, £1 Is. per week; massage and mental cases, £2 2s. per week. Recreation, 1 month annually. Salary, £16. Outdoor uniform provided. For further particulars see page 92. Dublin.—Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses, Irish Branch. Office—12 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin. Superintendent ; Assistant Superintendent. Train- ing Homes.—St. Patrick's, 101 Stephen’s Green, Dublin ; Lady Superin- tendent. St. Lawrence's, 34 Rutland Square, Dublin ; Lady Superinten- dent. The former home trains candidates of the Protestant denomina- tions ; the latter those of the Roman Catholic Church.