The principles and practice of nursing, or, A guide to the inexperienced : designed to instruct the nurse in the principles of her profession, and to assist the inexperienced in performing the various duties pertaining to the sick room : adapted to families, nurses, and young physicians / by J.S. Longshore.

  • Longshore, J. S. (Joseph Skelton), 1809-1879.
Date:
1842
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Credit: The principles and practice of nursing, or, A guide to the inexperienced : designed to instruct the nurse in the principles of her profession, and to assist the inexperienced in performing the various duties pertaining to the sick room : adapted to families, nurses, and young physicians / by J.S. Longshore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDUSTRY. It is often required of nurses, when employed in families not too large, and who are not in affluent circumstances, to take charge of the household affairs, where the patient does not call for their whole atten- tion ; this, perhaps, occurs more frequently in coun- try places than in larger towns and cities; and unless the nurse is of industrious habits, and calculated to manage both branches of her business, she will find that either the patient or her domestic concerns must suffer, in consequence of inattention; either of which will render her disreputable in her profession. But whether she be required to attend to any other duties than those pertaining to the sick room or not, indo- lence can in nowise find a place in the catalogue of qualifications essential to a good nurse ; for a person of indolent, idle habits, cannot but manifest more or less repugnance in performing the most trifling duty; which is extremely tiresome and disgusting to those whose misfortune it is to be harassed with them. One of the most essential constituents of industry, is to habituate oneself to a light quick step in walk- ing ; and to no person is it more indispensable than the nurse, let her be employed either in the domestic concerns that may come under her notice, or in dis- charging her duties to the sick; in the former instance it will enable her to despatch them with much more