Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis :: read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis SanitariumChicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department
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Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis :: read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department
Tuberculosis
Group C (At least one year's service in lower group): $2100.00
Group B (At least one year's service in next lower group): $2280.00
Group A (At least one year's service in next lower group): $2400.00
(2) Civil Service examinations for all of the above positions render
possible the selection of the best candidates.
(3) Efficiency of the nursing force is stimulated by conferences
of various groups of nurses:
(a) Weekly conferences of junior nurses.
(b) Weekly conferences of head nurses.
(c) Conferences of the entire nursing force twice a
month.
(d) A well organized system of lectures on various
phases of tuberculosis by authorities.
(e) Bi-monthly meetings of the Nurses' Tuberculosis Study Circle,
the proceedings of which are published in this pamphlet.
(4) A centralized system of administration, with brief medical and
social records of all dispensary cases for the purpose of
clearing and information, in the office of the Superintendent
of Nurses located in the down town General Offices of the
Sanitarium.
(5) Nurses wear uniforms beginning with the middle of October of
this year (1914).
(6) Before January, 1915, all tuberculosis cases in their homes
will be cared for by the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
This includes both far advanced and surgical cases.
The Chicago Anti-tuberculosis movement has been more fortunate in its
development than that in other cities where the dispensaries are under one
organization and the nurses under another. Here the dispensaries and their
nursing and medical staffs have steadily developed under the same
direction, the advantages of such an arrangement being clearly evident.
We look into the future with confidence. The Chicago Municipal
Tuberculosis Sanitarium, with its 900 beds and its comprehensive medical
and laboratory facilities for the study and treatment of cases, is to open
before the year 1914 expires. The County Tuberculosis Hospitals for
advanced cases are undergoing a revolutionary change in the direction of
administrative and medical efficiency. The Dispensary Department of the
Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium is extending sanatorium care to the
homes of tuberculous patients by building and remodelling porches and
supplying, if necessary, all equipment required for outdoor sleeping. We
have eighteen open air schools. We have an effective tuberculosis exhibit.
The principle of early detection of illness is being adopted by many
business concerns and the sanitary conditions are gradually improving. The
future is full of promise.
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