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April 24, 1920.
Miss Louise M. Powell,
University Hospital,
M
Minneapolis, Minn.
NO
My deur Miss Powell:
I was grestly interested in the contents
of your letter of the 20th, as nat rally my interest in
Bellevue is still as kean as aver. It makes me sad, howaver,
to appreciate the changes that have taken place in the three
short yours since I left. I had built up a fine group of
graduate head nurses, the majority of whom were B°llevue
nurses. We wera developing somo uniformit; of ward instruct-
ion, and we had also a good corps of trained teachars, splendid
clasa rooms and a live school. Through a combination of cir-
cumstances I was told only as late as yesterday by a member
of the bourd, that the situ tion was pitiful. It is always
rather heartbreaking to see a piece of work in which you have
put the vory bast of yourself and devaloped to a rather high
degree of efficiency collapae.
While I have the greatest respect for
Miss Nash, I would not consider her the bost woman for the
work at Bellevua. She is a fine woman and makes a very good
Hospital Superintendent. She is not strong, howaver, on the
training school administration side. I dannot halp but feel
that Miss Brink's resignation in almost a calemity, and while
I racognize that she is somewhat inelastic and sensitive she
is a wonderful tenchar, loyal to & degree Fund without her I
never could have put into operation the changes that were
necessary to in order to make it A suitable
for
For example, when I went there, there ware no ward
standards of any sort or description, night orders wers never
written, the house officers were in charge of many features of
the work, which were entirely nursing procedures. Gradually
little by little changes were effected which made it possible
to do good teaching in the ward. It is such an enormous
place that it takes waeks to accomplish a change, which in a
small hospital might be effected throughout the institution
in a few days.
One of the most capable
charga
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