The duties and conduct of nurses in private nursing, with some notes on preventing the spread of infectious diseases / by William L. Richardson.

  • Richardson, W. L. (William Lambert), 1842-1932.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The duties and conduct of nurses in private nursing, with some notes on preventing the spread of infectious diseases / by William L. Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    nursing is not your vocation, and to withdraw from a competitive contest in which you are sure, when perhaps it is too late, to be doomed to disappointment. The mere fact that you have been able to go through a training-school will not of itself make you a successful nurse ; and I would earnestly advise you nowf not to adopt nursing as your profession, unless you mean to achieve for yourself success. Let your aim be to become the best nurse in the city in which you mean tc practise ; and you can never become that, unless you love the work w'hich the profession of nursing demands. Do not be content to be a second-rate nurse. If you are clearly pursuaded that you have a fondness for this work, then go on and use every opportunity while in this school