The principles and practice of nursing, or, A guide to the inexperienced : designed to instruct the nurse in the principles of her profession, and to assist the inexperienced in performing the various duties pertaining to the sick room : adapted to families, nurses, and young physicians / by J.S. Longshore.

  • Longshore, J. S. (Joseph Skelton), 1809-1879.
Date:
1842
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Credit: The principles and practice of nursing, or, A guide to the inexperienced : designed to instruct the nurse in the principles of her profession, and to assist the inexperienced in performing the various duties pertaining to the sick room : adapted to families, nurses, and young physicians / by J.S. Longshore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    conduct is indispensable; they are continually sur- rounded with circumstances calculated, in an un- guarded moment, to draw from them some word or action, that is seized upon by those who are always ready to turn what they can glean to their own ac- count, in injuring the reputation of the unwary, though, perhaps, less reprehensible than themselves. There is a class to be found in every community, who have a great deal more business with the con- cerns of others than their own ; these consider one who mingles in society more than themselves, a fit subject to operate upon; consequently, at every op- portunity, they are boring and prying into him, in order to get a supply of news, which they dispose of in a manner best suited to their purpose ; hence the necessity of a prudent course of conduct towards them, lest the enviable reputation of a tattler be un- consciously acquired. To a nurse, who is frequently made the confidant of the patient, and led into many private affairs and matters connected with the do- mestic community, into which she is called temporarily to reside, which discretion requires should be buried deep in the abyss of secrecy; prudence in conversa- tion, on concerns pertaining to others, is of the ut- most importance. Throughout her whole intercourse with the patient, it should be kept in view, not, how- ever, to an extent to render her disagreeably re- served. But she should know how to pick and call her thoughts for conversation, by suppressing