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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    INTRODUCTORY AND PRACTICAL HINTS. This is the seventh Edition of this book which has attained a phenomenal success. No pains are spared to make each Edition in all respects exhaustive and up-to- date. The Nursing Profession is the only publication from which full and up-to-date particulars can be obtained concerning the Nurse Training Schools in this country, the Colonies and the United States of America. Each year this text-book is added to and carefully revised, and an attempt is made to codify and condense the informa- tion concerning the various training schools upon a plan which brings the whole nursing field under review, and, by classification and subdivision, makes the information available at a price within the reach of all. The con- tents of this book are official in that they are revised each year by the representatives of each institution without whose courteous co-operation it would have been impos- sible to have made it as complete and accurate as it is. We desire to thank most heartily every one who has rendered us assistance in its compilation. We think we may claim, at least, that the book fulfils the two chief purposes for which it was designed. In the first place it meets the case of every woman who is attracted to nursing and desires to become a fully trained nurse, and in the second place it has proved of material assistance to matrons and hospital officials in lessening the amount of correspondence with which they are now in- undated by inquirers who seek the information which it