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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teaching and nursingare well established, the latter in a good hospital ofeighty beds, and the teaching Sisters all take thenurses course so that they may continue to holdthe theoretical work in their hands. The nursingmethods are modern and excellent, and the secularpupils are not overworked. Both nuns and nursescarry on their studies and prayers as much as possiblein the beautiful garden of the institute. The Ingen-bohl nuns first opened, in Switzerland, the questionof state registration, as many of their Sisters workedin Germany and felt the influence of the German act.They are cordial and responsive to the internationalidea, and may be rightly regarded as a centre ofardent and zealous progressiveness in nursingeducation. Switzerland has many fine hospitals, well managed,and, in the main, well nursed, though it is obviousthat, in some of them, overwork is the rule for thenursing staff. The example and influence of the German NursesAssociation seem likely to guide or colour, uncon-
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