Lectures on nursing / by William Robert Smith.

  • William Edward Smith
Date:
1875
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Credit: Lectures on nursing / by William Robert Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    also in its pursuit do good daily and hourly. Nor is this all, for by the constant practice of those little duties and virtues, which you will see the necessity of every day in your wards, you will feel that you are humbly following in the path pointed out by Him who went about doing good. I hope you will resolve this night, that the opportunities now offered to you, which, if lost, can never be regained, shall be used in the way most beneficial to your patients and to your- selves. Indeed, if any of you have entered upon your office with any other feelings than those of an earnest desire to do good to your fellow-creatures,—a feeling which makes you long to be with them, to help them, to take care of them, you have made a great mistake in becoming a nurse, and the sooner you seek for some other honest means of obtaining a livelihood the better. Now do not take this unkindly. You may be very good, respectable, and well meaning, yet make very bad nurses. You may be of an excitable or fretful disposition, and find it one of your greatest trials to subdue it. You may be physically unfit, and thus, unable to bear the confinement and fatigue of a sick room; or you may be low spirited, unkind, or sulky. Now if any of these things is really the case with any of you, I should advise such a one not to be a nurse, and especially not to be a nurse to the Ttoyal Hants County Hospital. There is a great difference between a person when
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