Public Health Nurse Quarterly V10 No3 1918 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Public Health Nurse Quarterly, Vol. 10: July, 1918 As a mother, I cannot conceive what my own feelings would be did I not know that thousands of our nurses were at the front. If We consider nurses much in the same light as we consider our troops we should help them in every possible way to use their training and skill to the best advantage and to become in reality a recognized part of our forces. We should have respect and consideration for them, and do all that is possible to enable them to give the best that is in them to the cause which they are serving. I have been amazed during the last ten days to hear nurses who had not enrolled in the Red Cross called slackers. The term astonished me until I suddenly became aware of the great honor which it paid indirectly to the profession of nursing. No one calls the unskilled wo man a slacker because she does not enlist openly in the country's service, therefore it must be that we consider the nurses much in the same way as we consider our troops; they are essential to a successful prosecution of the war. The question of relative military rank for nurses need in no way disturb any of our existing traditions concerning physicians and nurses. Relative rank, as we ask for it, would confer upon the army nurses only the right to wear the insignia belonging to the office and the name of which is given to the woman, and eligibility to exercise authority within the limits prescribed by the law. And those limits are defined, in the bill proposed, as these: The army nurses shall have authority only in medical and sanitary matters and other work in the line of their duties, next after the medical ofiicers and only in and about military hospitals. There seems to be nothing left in this kind of rank we ask for the nurse except the very practical benefit of ensuring better care for our sick and wounded men. I. W. L. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.