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question how she gets them. This is exceed
e popular idss that HpESps isFS. ~,
monty, supposed to fail IN love with tie nurse:
nurses,, and in my extended acquaintance IL the
profession know Of only two nurses who have
married pStients great many nSr9Ss scr. marry rC,
through their profession, but whom on duty.
When an attractive nurse goes to take charge
mon in tho family who would gladly
tisnt a,S, when conys,lcscent would gladly pay
she refuses them in both cases, for II she
accepted, nine times out o. ten the women oon-
ing so. By refusing she secures the respect Of
the mon, though they rs a rule offer all atten-
tion in kindness, and wins the everlasting
"A, nurses position in, the family, depends
her SS Well Sna thur Chsr wsS
and the doctor, II he is not sure Of his position,
nurse accordingly. Ifphysicians know how often
trained nurses had to work ana TO work hard TO
hssp them Sp their Sases they would always S treat
and complacently thinks that q certain patient
really couldn't live without his services, when
and policy to bear In urging the patient to al.
low the doctor to call another time, Only the
other day had a patient who had had one physi.
didn't. know there was any other physician in
New York, and all the time sho was begging
R@ and get anoher docsor knew thss
earthly power could cave her SO we would just
soy when she brought up tho subject, We'll,
you tell him that you don't want him any longer
because you think he isn't doing YOU any good.
dismissed he Immediately blaInes the nurse in
charge OF the case, and this makes things hard
The nurse who has had big hospital cx.
perienco learns 30 much about medicines and
their immediate effects that she Is q great aid
e the physician often when she doesn't dare tell
telling about q case that she had. The ply
sioisn insisted upon & giving the patient large
stand. The nurse told him so, and finally one
morning sho said:
are Ssaass "n s4 faS too Il RHS sa,
!" Bosh answered the doctor, i know my
That night the nurse gave tho patient one.
tenth Of tho dose and got the desired effect
at, Of M collapse but better sn.
hadn't given 1t ALL An inexperienced nurse
would have given the whole dose and probably
siciSns and trained nurses S work * in syn,patSy SYM @
and harmony.
ITO get back to the condition of the bust
sneed nurses in good standing, go, than ever
before. More people employ trained nurses
than ever before, and the poor have them as
well as tho rich
Many a first-class nurse goos into a poor
family, or, rather, say; ono In. moderate cir
cumstances, and takes charge OF q case for 81 8
a week, not on account of the patient or her
self, but because the doctor asks her to dc
this as favor to him. In return ho gives her
rich case when II comes hts way. Undoubt.
edly there are more nurses out Of employment
here this winter than ever before, but that is
because they have focked here from almost
every little city in this country and many have
and unemployed are tho ones that are crying
ous that the trained nurse business is on the de-
, aSssS ~ho ho ta,S w ~ @ Ist r the
and a lawyer who fails delares that there IL
nothing in the law. So 1t is with trained
nurses for we are only human, and, as Miss
Forman put It,, Success depends upon the per.
son.. Those who are fit survive. make plenty
Of money: live well. lead happy lives and think
their profession the best in the world.