title: [Analysis on the employment of graduates of the Gregg-Turner Training School For Nurses].
abstract: There were 35 classes of graduation, altogether 281 graduates from the Gregg-Turner Training School For Nurses during the period 1906 to 1944. The number of graduates increased most rapidly under the influence of civil social, economical and international situation from 1924 to 1938. There were 161 graduates with explicit employment in all the 281 graduates. The majority of the graduates, amounting to 101, worked in Guangzhou, representing 62.7%; 87 graduating nurses, representing 54% of the employed ones, worked in privately-run medical building, private clinics, residential buildings, mansion, sanctum, rehabilitation unit, bureau of TCM, and hospital (lou, tang, guan, suo). Graduating nurses aggregated in coastal cities due to its earlier affection by western culture of science and technology, a large number of foreigners who lived, engaged in trade and missionized in open port, dealing with frequently political, economic and cultural exchanging, and thus demanding objectively more western nursing professionals.
authors.affiliation: School of Basic Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
authors.forename: Yongchen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D004651:Employment; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000266:history*