History of the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Sara E. Parsons
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ISBN: 9781331268321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Excerpt from History of the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses The Boston Training School for Nurses, attached to the Massachusetts General Hospital, was organized November 1, 1875, the third training school to be established in the United States in connection with a general hospital. As one of the oldest and largest schools it seemed fitting to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary with a history of its development and achievements, both for the pleasure and information of all those who are interested in the School and the Hospital. It is hoped that this history will prove also to be an inspiration to those nurses who will graduate from the School in the future. The writer has learned that most of the improvements of later years, which were considered original when made, were comprehended in the founders' conception of the School; that those ideas were later revived by the Advisory Committee in 1900; and that the Alumnae Association, in its effort since 1915 to raise an endowment for the School, has been nurturing unconsciously an expressed need of the Directors of 1879 and of the Advisory Committee of 1900. If the history is to have any value, it must be true; unpalatable facts must not be concealed, the difficulties of the work must not be minimized or exaggerated. Mere facts, however, are comparatively uninteresting unless illumed by the spirit behind them. The value of the history, therefore, is dependent upon the reader's ability through imagination to invest the facts with the thought, customs, ideals of the locality, time, and persons who were making history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.