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
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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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    her on days when, or in clothes in which, she has attended infectious cases ; whereas the doctor must go from patient to patient without any such precautions. But if the risk were greater than it is, we should have no right to flinch from it. Life was given not to be hoarded, but to be carefully and wisely spent. The rich and their children enjoy all the benefits of knowledge and of wealth ; among others, all the appliances that knowledge can devise and wealth can purchase to avert or to cure disease. Incumbent on the possession of wealth and knowledge is the duty of ministering to those who have them not, and the risks incident to that duty we are not at liberty to shun.'' Areligious organization, it has been suggested, is necessary to the perfect success of your undertaking. A religious organization, in the best sense of the phrase, I trust that we possess ; but what is too often meant by the words is a dogmatic or sectarian bond. This I believe to be neither necessary nor desirable. The Lady Superintendent of the Home and Training School has always endeavoured to instil religious motives and a religious sense of professional duty into the minds of her pupils; and though among these are members of many different sects, we are never troubled with religious discord. Good work, faithfully performed, has a tendency to enlarge the mind of a Christian, and purify his spirit from sectarian bigotry; to bring into strong relief those principles of faith and practice, which, as the Great Judge has assured us, will guide His judgment; and to indispose the labourers to judge one another. * True niu'siiig lmo\\-s nothing of infection, except to prevent it. Clean- liness, fresh an- from open -iraidows, -with unremitting attention to the patient are the only defence a true niu'se either asks or needs. Wise and Immane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection. —jiliss Xiijhtiiiijiih's Notes on Xursuiij.