Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes.

  • Hughes, Amy.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    putting the patients and their surroundings into the most favourable conditions possible. If this be so, is this work being done to the satisfaction of those most competent to judge, the doctors themselves ? No committees, no visiting ladies, however interested in the subject, can decide this point, and yet the judgment of the medical men, who are really most concerned, is not made a prominent feature at all, and too often is altogether overlooked. A nurse is engaged by an unprofessional committee, placed in a district, and doctors and patients left to make the best of her. There is no standard by which her work can be judged, no one in authority competent to do it, and therefore unless egregious faults are committed, she is left to her own sweet will. The crux of the whole matter lies in the fact that outside the nursing profession, and, indeed, until comparatively recently, within it, the neces- sity of more rather than less training for this special work has not been realised. The standard of the Metropolitan and National Nursing Association, and its plan of work, after- wards adopted as a model and extended in its operations by the Queen Victoria's Jubilee In- stitute for Nurses, were designed to meet this great need, and to place district nursing on a sound basis.