How to become a nurse and how to succeed / compiled by Honnor Morten.

  • Morten, Honnor, 1861-1913.
Date:
[1895]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to become a nurse and how to succeed / compiled by Honnor Morten. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    North-West London Hospital—Kentish Town. Age, 23. Wages, ;£8, ;^i8. Lectures given and certificate at the end of 3 years. Holidays, 4 weeks. Double bedrooms. Uniform provided. Applications not very numerous. Beds, 47. Paddington Green Hospital for Children. Age, 19 to 23. Wages, ;^8. No lectures or certificate. Hours on duty, 10. Holidays, 2 weeks. Cubicles. Indoor uniform supplied. About 300 applications refused yearly. The Hospital is being enlarged, and then lectures will be given to the probationers, and other improvements made. Matron, Miss Anderson. Beds, 27. Royal Free Hospital—Gray's Inn Road. Age 23 to 35. Wages, first year, none, then /^i^, £20, ^^25. Lectures given by the visiting medical staff. Certificate at the end of 4 years. Gold medal to the first in the examination. Hours on duty, 7 a.m. to 8.30 p.m., with 2 hours off. Holidays, 2 weeks first year, 3 weeks after. Cubicles. Paying pupils taken for 3 months for 13 guineas—2 or 3 at a time, and they do no ward cleaning. Indoor uniform supplied. About 40 applications refused monthly. Only nurses trained in the Hospital are taken on the staff. Sisters' salaries, ^^30 to ^^40. HoHdays, 4 weeks. Matron, Miss Wedgewood. Beds, 160. Royal Hospital for Children and Women—Waterloo Road. Applicants for the office of probationer must not be less than 21 years of age. They must produce evidence of having been vaccinated since the age of 15. If selected, they will be taken on 2 months' trial, i month of which will be spent on night duty. At the end of this time, if found suitable and physi- cally fit, they will be engaged, and they will be required to remain m the service of the Hospital for 2 years from the date of en- gagement. Indoor uniform and laundry will be provided but no salary will be given for the first year. The salary for the' second year will be ^16, third year, ^^20, x\%mg£z annually till it reaches ^25. The uniform consists of one blue serge dress, three cotton dresses eight aprons, and four caps each year. It is the property ot the Hospital, and must always be worn when on duty Proba.- tioners are expected to provide themselves with cotton dresses of a particular pattern, and with aprons for wear, during their time of trial. After two years' satisfactory service, a nurse desirine to ^ave the Hospital will be furnished with a certificate of training Hours on duty, 7.30 a.m. to 8 p.m., 2 hours off. Holidays.'^ weeks. Special probationers are received for one year upon a training fee of 20 guineas, payable in advance, in sums of guineas at the beginning of each three months. They provide their own