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Show 170 Beginning in 1905, the year it opened its doors, the Deseret Hospital, "that magnificent institution on the hillside," trained and graduated professional nurses in a 3-year course. Careful distinction was made, in the 1915 editorial, between these professionals and the ones trained by the Relief Society. "This [the 3 years at the hospital], of course, prepares them to meet all of the complications and emergencies of their professional careers; while our Relief Society nurses are trained rather for the simpler cases of home nursing, and district visiting, which, after all, are the more 2 important because they are the more frequent." The issue of the magazine just cited also carried a report of the completion of the school's 1915 course. "Dr. M. C. Roberts- their instructor-[our own Maggie Curtis Shipp] has spared no pains in training them in the essentials for a nurse, and has given them many advantages by having efficient doctors lecture to them. She has put them in a way to make good use of their knowledge, and to make fine, noble women of themselves." In an excellent treatment of the subject of women in medicine in nineteenth century America, Chris Arrington said: "Some few women obtained medical degrees in sectarian schools in the 1850s and 1860sJ but not until about 1870 did medical co-education start to 4 become respectable. As early as 1868, according to Arrington, Brigham Young had given the women encouragement to school themselves in midwifery. (But it came much earlier than that, according to an article in a |
