The matron's course : an introduction to hospital and private nursing / by Miss S.E. Orme.

  • Orme, S. E.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The matron's course : an introduction to hospital and private nursing / by Miss S.E. Orme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    who love to gossip and make much of petty hospital scandal. All this is very trying when met with. You are made to feel that you are indeed no longer at home. Let your life speak for you. If ye serve the Lord Christ try to think and do what would please Him in even the smallest thing. Whatsoever things are 'true, whatso- ever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely . . . think on these things.' Erskine says, Life is not divided into re- ligious and secular parts ; all should be religious ; . , . the world is a temple, and the business ought to be the services of the temple . Set the right always before you, and never sanction wrong in any shape or form in yourself or others. If you ever hear a fellow-nurse saying anything which may injure or grieve you, go to her at once and try to set matters straight. Put as kindly a construction as you possibly can on everything said or done, and try to help your fellow-nurses. Be kind to any new pro- bationers, who may be feeling lonely and un;- happy. It will no doubt seem strange to you to do many things which, as nurses, it is desirable you should do. You meet people you would usually as.sociate wath as equals, on a different platform altogether, and your connection with them is