The Chemawa American, June 01, 1915, Page 24, Image 26

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THE CHE MAW A AMERICAN
of evolving a system whereby splendid results shall be possible.
Next year seems to us to promise more than any other year in our ex
perience at the school. Prospects are exceedingly bright for an enroll
ment as large as the school can accommodate. It looks like it might be
come a case of "first come, first served" at Chemawa, so send in your
name early and be on the safe side. x
NURSING
HY LUCY TUKCOTTT5, Chemawa Graduate, 1915
EFORE entering a school of nursing the students
should undergo a thorough physical examination; the
heart and lungs should be examined, the eyes tested
and teeth put in good order, as one in delicate health
will find such defects a drawback to success. In
many cases the occupation, interest, and regularity
of life, prove the best tonics for over-indulged young
women.
To Succeed as a nurse, or in any other occupation or profession, re
" quires the simple fundmental qualities of honesty, industry, presever
ance, intelligence, and high moral principles, and the more special
attributes of sympthy, unselfishness, tact, observation, judgment and
good manners. With these qualifications, few vocations open to women
have such a marked value in developing the best parts of a girl's char
acter as a course in a good training school.
The general requirements are a common school education. In many
states training schools require a high school education. The require
ments for entering the professsion of nursing are becoming more strin
gent everv year and time spent in special preparation is well utilized.
The training school is the place where a young woman is prepared to
undertake the responsibility and superintendence of various depart
ments connected with nursing in the hospital. Outside the hospital
world she is fitted for many branches of civic usefulness. Nurses are
prominent in the organizing of special campaigns against various diseases,
visiting patients, and spreading sound knowledge of the treatment re
quired, and precautions necessary to prevent their spread. Nurses are
proving of immense usefulness in public schools where early stages of
infections are detected and matters of bodily cleanliness are enforced.
We have nurses as factory inspectors, nurses on school boards, nurses as
public lectures on hygiene, nurses organizing public movements, such
as international conferences, and active -in smaller matters of organiza-