Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-13 | Page 23 | First Trained Nurse Now Teaching Others

First Trained Nurse Now Teaching Others By Ry y RL N ILU NEW YORK May 12 The 12 The train train- trained trained trained ed nurse nune celebrates her tn birthday this month Only for the last hal half century hll have e we e had with us u this capable capped white capped serious young woman who works as scientifically as the th doctor who ho has robbed operations o of their danger dancer and hospital sentences sen- sen sentences sen sentences ot of their terrol The profession which now tangs lanKs second only after teaching In the number of women omen employed In It Itis Is so new that the first trained nurse In America is Js still 11 living Ing She Is Miss Linda Richards of ot Boston Poston who ho was as night superintendent at Bellevue hospital New lork It a 1873 when hen the first nurses school was organized end and six PUPI pupas carolled Today there are W 1677 d schools for training nurses In the tho United States alone and there thero are trained nurses nur s daily enga- enga engaged encased ed In fighting fI the battle with Ith death There ale aio 55 students in training and nurses engaged as Instructors tORn 1 W Yet there thero have hav never been en- en enough en enough ou ough 11 nurses to meet the tho demand says Miss Katherine Do De Lon Long gen gen- general general eral cen-eral eral su superintendent e of ot Lelle lAe school of training school Th rhe Increase population together with Ith the exten exten- extension extension extension sion of tho the Ubo use of ot nurses has qUIt outpaced the supply It Is estimated that in the or of public DubUc health nursing alone there will be a shortage of nur nurses s within a ear or two Nursing Miss 1 Do De Long Loni belle es I is one o of the mo mot most t desirable prole professions professions tor for young oung women o of some somo ed- ed education ed education JOBS JOno WAITING W Good Good health intelligence in e even en temper and a determination to ov 0 overcome ob obstacles are the tho mt mirt Important qualifications she sho sa- sa say As soon as she has baa her diploma sr she finds a position po waiting iv ailing for hr h heither r reither either either with mth a hospital ho institution or as IlS a public health nurse In some ome community That It Is a health healthy and Rapp hIlPP occupation lIon Is 1 evidenced e by the fact faLt that the tho first trained nurse Durse Is Il living and well ell During the past 60 80 years ears Delle- Delle vue Dolle-vue vae th the oldest and largest hospital In the country countr has graduated more LueA Lue Luez i A z ad adt t w t tI tI I I s Ml's LInda Richards t Train Train- Trained e ed 1 10 bare ur-C ur than 1600 nurses from its training school this 1 his ear on May lay 15 the tho oldest nurse nue Miss RIchards and the youngest nurse in the 1923 lass class Miss Edna Idna Pelson of Gary In I are to be featured In the lion commemorating the anniversary of the tho profession on