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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    pennies for the boot club, the country holiday fund and the penny bank, thus sowing seeds of thrift in their young minds. Such domestic details come under the nurse's notice every day, and if she only appreciates their importance the leaven will spread. And in advocating true thrift she can earnestly protest against the deep- est wrong of modern childhood—the insurance of children's lives. Opportunities and Influence. It is the opportunities given by district nurs- ing that make it so important, and now so many nurses wish to join it, they should realise what the work involves. It is not nursing alone, though that must be as perfect and well-disciplined as experience and training can ensure, but moral influence, to which there is practically no limit. This is a high and some may consider an exaggerated standard of district nursing, but it is not more than the consequences warrant. The influence of a good nurse is felt after her services are concluded ; her aim should be not only to establish kindly personal relations, but to effect lasting good. It is no easy matter ; disappointment and discouragement are ever close at hand. But as the coral reefs of the Pacific are the productions of myriads of tiny