Sketch of the history & progress of district nursing : from its commencement in the year 1859 to the present date, including the foundation by the "Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute" for nursing the poor in their own homes / by William Rathbone ; with an introduction by Florence Nightingale.

  • Rathbone, William, 1819-1902.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Sketch of the history & progress of district nursing : from its commencement in the year 1859 to the present date, including the foundation by the "Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute" for nursing the poor in their own homes / by William Rathbone ; with an introduction by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sir,’ was his answer. The good nurse can often only answer, if examined how she nurses, ‘ With brains and heart, sir, and with training and practice.’ A great physician was heard to say, when asked how he treated pneumonia, ‘ I don’t treat pneumonia, I treat the person who has pneumonia.’ If this is true in medicine, in which there is much that can be tested by examinations, how much more true is it of medicine’s servant—nursing. Training, silent, thing - training, as well as word- training ; long years of training—moral and sympathetic, as well as physical-training in tact and sympathy,—conduct-training is necessary. And progress can never end but with a nurse’s life. A good nurse must be a good woman, with sympathetic insight. She cannot be a