The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-31

vate nursing. But the hospital work
is done by rule, and in private nursing
one is subject to the caprices of .r2
patient. A nurse does not feel so
TO exercise her authority in a home as
in a hospital"
1 looked ct old Brown and wondered
if he was not cranky
Does a hospital nurse have any re-
creation or social pleasures? 2"
''She usually is free after o'clock
and may receive calls or attend con-
certs or plays after that hour"
What motive leads nurses to adopt
this prOfession?'
The motives are as various as those
that lead to any other. A girl finds IL
necessary to earn her own livelihood, and
if she has a strongly sympathetic ma
ture she may hit upon this method
That is ALL
Are nurses likely to discriminate be-
tween charity and paid patients?"
Those worthy the name are -.
Besides in most we'll conducted hospitals
they are not informed who are charity
patients The only way we know the
difference" she said. was from the fact
that the charity patients were the
hardest to please. If we found a pa
tent unusually testy we used to say
He must be a charity patient
There must be a pathetic side in the
life of a nurse"
There is indeed. One of the sad
dest things is the death of an unknown
person. He is brought into the hospital
unconscious and he dies in that state.
There is nothing about his clothing or
belongings to identify him. and II there
is any mark upon the headboard on his
grave it is Unknown"
Does death attract much attention
in the ward where it occurs?'
Every little, and it is seldom CONS
fa1 h. ,At, ~
usually occurs at night or in the early
morning, and the patients are likely
to be asleep at that time. When a
patient is dying a screen is placed
about his bed, and they al
ways know what that means. They
may inquire whether he is suffering
much. but when the screen is removed
questions"
els there not a humorous side
also?"
There are a good many funny little
incidents. especially in the children'S
ward The tots hear the terms used
bv the doctors and nurses in their con-
ferences and they misapply them with
+ the greatest gravity. A little girl in
formed me with some concern that
the doctor said her 'perSpiration was
81 Patients will resort TO all sorts OF
plans to escape taking their medicine.
An ola 1rlS0HidH HedTu the NASllAh6l
physician direct me to give him AZ
spoonful of a certain medicine every
hour He grumbled to his neighborS
that he wouldn't have his sleep dis
! turbed for an ocean of medicine. and
/ that evening he was missing. He cerS
+! tainly was not in the room. L told the
orderly to make a thorough search, but
/ the old fellow could not be found. His
( clothes were gone, too, and was very
anxious about him. The policemen
were notified. but nothing was seen or
+ him till morning, when he walked in
with his extra clothes under his arm
He had chosen to sleep in the bath
/ tub"
! Whom do nurses prefer to care for.
men. women or children
! Usually men. because they are more
appreciative and less whimsical than
women Children do not make their
wants known so plainly as their cid a,
of course"
I was about to ask why there are II =
more men nurses. when Brown stir
and / knew the rascal was awakening
He would distrust my suddenly
aroused interest in the subject of
nursing 1 knew, so I picked UP a copy
of The Herald and buried myself in
it, while the pretty white robed figure
of the lately interviewed busted herself
about the room.
1 wish I were Brown, or better, l
wish / were recovering from a fever
and had that particular trained
nurse.