1 83, PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W. 2nd February 1916 Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter
dated the 31st ultimo. I will answer your questions
in the order in which they stand :— 1) The certificates of the proposed College will
be given only to the nurses who have under gone a satisfactory
course of Hospital Training and passed the requisite
examinations of the College. 2) The general opinion as to the minimum length
of Hospital Training required to qualify a nurse for
membership of the College is three years in a Hospital
of 100 beds and upwards; but I think that some provision
will have to be made for the possibility of women
becoming members of the College who have had two years
training or who have trained in a Hospital of
less than 100 beds. These points will have to be
settled by the Consultative Committee which we propose
to set up. No doubt everything will turn on the kind of
examination which these latter classes of nurses will be
required to pass, but from the opinion given to me
by those whose advise I have been following I do not
think that this is a point which is likely to present
any insuperable difficulty. 3) It will certainly be a part of the scheme to
establish a local centres for teaching and examination 2 of Irish, Scotch and Provincial Nurses. The idea of this College is receiving far more
support than I expected and I sincerely hope that it will
be approved by the Governors of Doctor Steevens'
Hospital. Yours truly, Arthur Stanley.
Chairman. T. P. Kirkpatrick Esq., 11 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin. 3 Letter from Mr Stanley
February 2 1916
Re proposed College