![]() ![]() “Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.”Ģ7. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.”Ģ6. “If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of a very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.”Ģ5. “Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sich. “So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”Ģ4. “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”Ģ3. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore…Ģ2. A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that is should do the sick no harm.”Ģ1. “The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe – how to observe – what symptoms indicate improvement – what the reverse – which as of importance – which are of none – which are the evidence of neglect – and of what kind of neglect.”Ģ0. But to live your life, you must discipline it.”ġ9. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.”ġ8. Everything you do in a patient’s room, after is is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. “The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”ġ7. “She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.”ġ6. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.”ġ5. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. “Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married most of my friends are dead and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.”ġ4. Or rather not in vain for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”ġ3. The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. “That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God this is the true doctrine of Mystics.”ġ2. Remember hs is face to face with his enemy all the time.ġ1. Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. Everything is sketchy, the world does nothing by sketch.”ġ0. If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.”ĩ. Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first, the second only the considerations fo what is their “place” to do – and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them…”Ĩ. Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. ![]() The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried is one the the commonest observations made at a sickbed.”Ħ. “The craving for ‘the return of the day”, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.”ĥ. “There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.”Ĥ. ![]() The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why having none by servants about them.”ĭon’t forget to get your FREE copy of the Nurse Health Ebook!ģ. Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, not when he is doing anything.
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