General nursing / by Eva C.E. Lückes.

  • Lückes, Eva C. E. (Charlotte Ellis), 1854-1919.
Date:
1898
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Credit: General nursing / by Eva C.E. Lückes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    NUESING. CHAPTER I. Goethe tells us that everything in this world depends upon distinctness of idea and firmness of purpose. This is a very strong expression, but a very true one. When a woman decides that she wishes to become a nurse, unless she has a very distinct idea of what she means by that, and of what the process of training involves, she will inevitably waste a great deal of time, even if she has the firmness of purpose neces- sary for the attainment of the object she has in view. To begin with, it is important that a woman should be clear that if she seeks admission to a training school for nurses, she means to become, if possible, a skilled nurse, and not a doctor. Training schools for nurses are not established with the object of supplying second or third-rate doctors, but to produce first-rate nurses, which is quite a different thing. A trained nurse of average ability will be able to perform many little offices for the sick infinitely better than a doctor of average ability could, and doctors themselves are the first to acknowledge this. Doctors and nurses are both essential to the welfare of the sick. Nothing is gained, and something is lost, if each is not content to do their own work in the way best calculated B