Identifier: historyofnursing4nutt (find matches)
Title: A history of nursing: the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, M. Adelaide (Mary Adelaide), 1858-1948 Dock, Lavinia L., 1858-1956 Internet Archive (Firm)
Subjects: Nursing
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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Isabel Mclsaac Formerly Superintendent of the Illinois Training School and then Interstate Secretary; Head, Army Xurse Corps Cuba 303 of the poor lunatic. This is, of course, a defective or-ganisation, and the nurses who graduate from this schoolhave not acquired a general knowledge of nursing. Atpresent the Secretary of Health and Charities is givingthe school a more scientific and practical organisation.He now intends that only graduate nurses shall take thisspecial course, and shall receive a diploma qualifyingthem to care for mental cases, provided, of course, thatthey pass the examinations. Our Manicocomium issituated some nine miles from Havana, on a large estate,and the asylum has accommodation for 2500 patients,which is an evil, because the unfortunate insane cannotbe sufficiently well attended, especially from the medicalpoint of view. The school for nurses annexed to this asylum will nowopen with ten undergraduate and eighteen post-graduatestudents, and eighteen young ladies

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