Pemphigus of the conjunctiva / von Prof. Dr. Wicherkiewicz.

  • Dickinson, William.
Date:
[1886]
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Credit: Pemphigus of the conjunctiva / von Prof. Dr. Wicherkiewicz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDRESS TO GRADUATING CLASS OF ST LOUIS TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. By Mrs. Cornelia B. Pulsifer, M. D. IT is my duty to present to you the diplomas you have so faithfully earned; but before doing it, let me thank you for your patient faithful work during the two years you have been with us. Only those who have followed you day after day since the training school began its existence, know how hard this pioneer work has been. We thank you for the heroism which made you persevere. Our affectionate interest will follow you, as it never can those who come after you. We ask you to remember that the reputation of our school and of trained nursing in this city, depends largely upon you. Physicians and patients will decide favorably or otherwise ac- cording as you do your work well or ill. Your first duty is to the physician; to him you owe the most complete loyalty and prompt, intelligent, careful obedience. No one who has not acquired the habit of conscientious obe- dience to orders, whether she approves them or not, has a right to be considered a trained nurse. There are many excuses for ignorance but none for disobedience. The efforts of the most skilful physician can be thwarted by a careless or unconscientious nurse. Equally skilful physicians, having equally good results, dif- fer often in the treatment of similar cases; do not, therefore, pre- sume to sit in judgment upon methods which are new to you. Never discuss the treatment with the patient or wit hfriends. Loyalty to the physician includes encouragement of the pa- tient's faith in him. There can be no rivalry or clashing between the work of a doctor and a nurse. Nursing well done, offers a sufficiently broad field for all your energies, and anything like prescribing for, or diagnosticating disease would be vulgar quackery, and would be a sad commentary upon your ignorance.