Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale
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"because it is not her business," I should say that nursing was not her
calling. I have seen surgical "sisters," women whose hands were worth to them two or three guineas a-week, down upon their knees scouring a room or hut, because they thought it otherwise not fit for their patients to go into. I am far from wishing nurses to scour. It is a waste of power. But I do say that these women had the true nurse-calling--the good of their sick first, and second only the consideration what it was their "place" to do--and that women who wait for the housemaid to do this, or for the charwoman to do that, when their patients are suffering, have not the _making_ of a nurse in them. II. HEALTH OF HOUSES.[1] [Sidenote: Health of houses. Five points essential.] There are five essential points in securing the health of houses:-- 1. Pure air. 2. Pure water. 3. Efficient drainage. 4. Cleanliness. 5. Light. Without these, no house can be healthy. And it will be unhealthy just in proportion as they are deficient. |
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