The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.

  • Warrington, Joseph, -1888.
Date:
1839
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Credit: The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    devote themselves to this important business, as well as promote the comfort of those who employ them, by presenting to the former a manual of instructions in their respective duties in each of the departments they have to fill. It being understood, that while such instructions are applicable to general cases, they are always subject to be modified by the special order of the attending physician. There are, however, a few preliminary ob- servations which should be regarded as im- mutable laws, and pre-requisites in the cha- racter and conduct of a person who proposes to take upon herself the office of a nurse. Honesty, cleanliness, fidelity, acute moral sense, temperance, patience, prudence, capa- city for retaining inviolate the affairs of the family in which she may be engaged, having exemplary, not imposing manners, ability to read written instructions, totally abstinent from the use of snuff, tobacco, opium, and ardent spirits, that her memory may be strong, her intellect clear, and her disposition uniform, her language respectful and chaste, having a consciousness of the relation she • 3