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Title: The Canadian nurse
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Canadian Nurses' Association
Subjects: Nurses Nursing and Nursing Management Periodicals
Publisher: (Ottawa, etc. Canadian Nurses' Association)
Contributing Library: University of Ottawa
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d The Hague.In the latter city, as we were hurryingto catch a train, we were accosted by ayoung lad selling Dutch papers of alldescriptions. Although we had notspoken he turned to us and called outLondon Times, ladies! This incidentshows how even small children in otherlands acquire the knowledge of the Eng-lish language, and in all the countrieswe visited we had no difficulty in mak-ing ourselves understood. Needless tosay we bought The Times! ! In Berlin we were guests at aMatrons School, where post-graduatecourses are given in hospital administra-tion. We were greatly interested in thesocial service organizations and in thework being done for the health of com-ing generations through the care nowgiven to mothers and children. In Cop-enhagen, as guests of the Danish NursesAssociation, we visited several munici-pal hospitals and saw the great advancemade in nursing in the Scandinaviancountries, both in the adoption of aneight-hour-day and in state pensions fornurses. VOL. XXXV, No. 4
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TJw Brandeyihurger Tor^ Berlm In Finland, much has been done bothm the equipment of hospitals, which aremost modern and up-to-date, and innursing which has developed rapidlyduring the past twenty years. There arecentral preliminary schools from which,after six months, students are allocatedto different hospitals. Graduates who ac-cept institutional positions must have atleast three months training in ward ad-ministration in the Post-Graduate schoolat Helsinki. A great deal of this advanceis credited to Miss Pohjala, a memberof Parliament who is also a graduatenurse. We spent Easter in Stockholm, at theHeadquarters of the Swedish NursesAssociation, and saw both Red Crossand private hospitals, also the newRadium Institute around which a newmedical centre is being very rapidly builtup. All training schools are under gov-ernment supervision and although thereare no state examinations, all schoolshave to be approved and inspected by agovernment medical Board. The Sophia-hemmet is a private

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