Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing.
- Liverpool. Royal Infirmary. Training School and Home for Nurses.
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.
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![MEMORANDUM WHICH IN SEVERAL CASES WAS SUBMITTED TO LADIES WHEN IT WAS PROPOSED THAT THEY SHOULD UNDERTAKE A NURSING DISTRICT. NURSING. The introduction of trained Nurses into tlie houses of the sick poor is calculated not only to lieal the sick and prevent a great deal of needless misery, but also to promote cleanliness and ventilation in their dwellings, and to prevent as well as cure. Most people have doubtless experienced, in their efforts to make the poor sharers in their prosperity, how difficult it is to avoid doing harm, and in this respect this work will be found peculiarly satisfactory: the objects of the nurses' care come generally recommended, either by visitors from whom they expect no physical relief (Clergymen, Scripture Readers, Town Missionaries,) or by the Parish ^nd Dispensary Doctors, whom they cannot deceive; the call for relief (sickness) is one ascertainable, and in most cases not permanent; help in such cases is not felt a degradation or humiliation, any more than a present of grapes in sick- ness, from an equal who might happen to have them when we had not, would be an offence; sickness seems, to both giver and receiver, a reminder of their common humanity, and to give a right to mutual help. When the sickness and call for help ceases, so naturally does the help. There is not the otherwise frequent difficulty of knowing when to stop, and fear of making peo])le careless and dependent. The work has also the advantage of bringing naturally, and without forcing, rich and poor into a communi- cation beneficial to both, where civilisation, by subdivision of duties and labours, has destroyed the connection which formerly existed. If each prosperous family, in a laige town, who may be fortunate enough to have some efficient ladies among their treasures, would undertake the super- intendence and supply of medical comforts in a district, the good that might be done is incalculable. I am convinced that after trial they would admit that no expenditure of time or money gave them more satisfaction; they would get the same sort of interest in their district that a benevolent landlord has in the poor on his estate. It is difficult to limit the extent of influence for good which women of refinement and kindliness diftuse in such a position of Motherhood. If these remarks savour of enthusiasm, it is not the enthusiasm of imagination, but of experience of a work, the scope of which was unsuspected when it was begun. G. LADIES' SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS. Every quarter the Ladies Superintendent of Districts draw up Repo'-ts of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20452585_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
