ABSTRACT
State registration is certainly the next and most important step towards achieving a fixed professional standard. According to the Constitution of the United States, an act authorizing registration for the whole profession and country cannot be passed by Congress at Washington, but each state must make its own laws for its own nurses. New York with its local and state associations will become sufficiently representative to ask for legal recognition for trained nurses within its domains. Only by a complete system of registration will it be possible for trained nursing to attain to its full dignity as a recognized profession and obtain permanent reforms. As the matter stands at present, the woman who has spent years of hard work and study in acquiring skill and knowledge as a nurse, on undertaking private nursing, finds at once that she is classed on a level with all sorts and grades of so-called trained nurses; nor has she any redress.
