Bulletin . re: 1. Centralization of nursing resources under centralregistries or associations organized to distribute economi-cally various grades of nursing service. 2. Group nursing in hospitals. A Central Clearing House It is not possible without experimentation anddemonstration to outline the details of thiscentralization and distribution of forces. Ingeneral, however, it involves the principle of acentral clearing house where all nurses who wishto be connected with the sick patient in the com-munity may register. This appears to be the firstand immediate step in this scheme. When the phys
Bulletin . re: 1. Centralization of nursing resources under centralregistries or associations organized to distribute economi-cally various grades of nursing service. 2. Group nursing in hospitals. A Central Clearing House It is not possible without experimentation anddemonstration to outline the details of thiscentralization and distribution of forces. Ingeneral, however, it involves the principle of acentral clearing house where all nurses who wishto be connected with the sick patient in the com-munity may register. This appears to be the firstand immediate step in this scheme. When the physician wants a nurse for his patient, instead ofcalling a half dozen numbers until he finds whathe needs, he calls one central clearing house orregistry. Such a registry, through its entrancerequirements, could ultimately institute teachingsupervision on the same basis that it is done invisiting nurse associations. Not only should gratluate nurses be invited toregister, but the undergraduate, the trained 46a. $0-10 lll-80 $21-30 $31-40 Ul-iO $51-60 $61-70 Number of private duty nurses in Xew York State whoearned each amount of money during last week in Feb-ruary, 1926. 52 nurses earned Sio or less. 82 earned $50 ormore. Of those 82, 80 were in Brooklyn or New York City. attendant, the nurses aid, as well; for all illnessdoes not require the services of the skilled many homes where the housekeeper is Dl,the need frequently demands housekeeping aswell as nursing service. There is a steady demandfor this type of worker—the practical nurse. Thiswork has been highly unstandardized, for theworker belongs to no group. She stands only should she be brought into the fieldwhere constructive supervision can be main-tained, but every effort should be made to developher, in order to answer the communitys demandfor her services. Organized Hourly Nursing The next step that is indicated marks the radi-cal change from nursing our patients on a twelve-or twenty-four-hour basi
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