Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... tendance on the sick. But up to the present date the Nursing Profession has never been taught to incorporate itself, to undertake its own self-government, to endeavour to work out its own future, to expel unworthy members from its ranks, to define its curriculum of training, to found a Diploma or Certificate of Efficiency, or to form a Pension Fund. But all these steps follow logically from the lines I have laid down. Suffice it to say that this remarkable document was pigeonholed by the War Office and no more was heard of it, and when trained nurses began to organise their profession two years later they were quite ignorant of its existence. In 1886, the question of registration of nurses was discussed by the Nursing and Domestic Management Committee of the Hospitals' Association of which Mr. Henry C. Burdett was the founder. But so little did Mr. Burdett then understand the professional aspect of registration that he wrote that in his opinion the Sectional Committee [on which were Matrons of hospitals] would do well to "confine their consideration of Registration to considering how far it is desirable or possible to establish a Register for Trained Nurses in connection with the Hospitals' Association, so that the Lady Superintendents and medical men may write from the country to the Association, and have a reasonable assurance that they will thus be able to ascertain the character of a nurse with reasonable certainty, and so protect themselves from risks to which they are at present exposed." The Matrons composing the Sectional Committee then expressed the opinion, in connection with this scheme, that no nurse should be placed on the Hospitals' Association's Register who had not received three years' training, but this professional...
