The training school for which, by the way, applications are received on an average of two a week by the matron in charge who has a waiting Fist of about 15 or 20 at all times; is yun on the following lines. Pro-Dationcrs must do three years, of training during which time they attend classes and lectures conducted visiting the hospital.
were during last year eight such qualified medical men in charge these classes which continued from September until June.
The curriculum is the standard one down by all accredited schools for nurses. and approved by the Geneva General Conference of Nurses. If examinations are passed the hospital training courses, the! murse then is put up for the examination of the State Boa China, which means, if she passes these examinations, that the nurse is lo to practise, fully qualified, anywhere in the world and eligible to. post graduate work in any institution in other parts of the world. The Training School of the Country Hospital is the only foreign registered training senool in the East, as it be recalled that the Rockefeller} Foundation Training School is. for Chinese girls only. The loyal training school was founded two years ago last June.
"The practical side of the training is under the supervision and instruction of the matron of the hospital in conformity with the catablished practice in this regard.
Student nurses are given. their! living quarters, board and laundry, and are expected to buy their books. Beginning with September 1 of this year they will be given a uniform, allowance, a practice not followed hitherto, nor is this generally, practised in other recognized training schools elsewhere, It has further been decided by the Board of Governors of the Country Hospital that henceforth pupil nurses will receive Ths. 30 per month for the first year, Tls. 40 for the second and Tls. 50 for the third year, a decision linked up with the closing of the Victoria Nursing Home, as municipal nurses have received these amounts, their work, although they did not have the advantage of the registered Training School of the Country Hospital, The Wages Question It is pointed out that in some ways the whole idea of an efficient training. school for nurses is undermined bj the introduction of "living wages? into the question. Girls who enter] training ax nurses do so for the serious intention of becoming professional women; they receive struction, theoretical and practical, an honoured profession; and it is customary in other professional' training schools for the student to pay for the advantages received. In fact, numerous hospitals throughout the world do charge chtrance fees into their training schools. event the nominal wages con: simply covering fees for books: uniforms, and incidental expenses. There is never any thought of re. muneration as such to the student se who is receiving her qualifying: experience and knowledge from the hospital. In this connection, how-fact cannot be overlooked 30, 40 and 50 received! by Country Hospital student nurses fave what may be called "clear," the student nurse pays nothing for her board and lodging and laundry. The type of girl therefore, who centers training schools for nurses is generally Tooked upon as one who weighs her values in the large scheme of things. She certainly does not, or should not, look upon three years in a training school as money making proposition. The result has been the high renown to which nursing as a profession has attained, It therefore can only strike impartial and understanding observer as unnecessary to com-mise rate the lot of the student nurse who receives a "miserable wage."
again becomes a question of essential values.
As regards the long hours and! har life generally of those in the nursing profession, there is scarcely anyone who would deny the truth of this statement. Therein lies much of the nobility and dignity of the profession. In this respect, however, Shanghai student nurses fare no worse than student nurses elsewhere and to pity their lot is to show a certain lack of information.
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