Evening journal., 1901-12-17
WORRIES OF
TRAINED NURSES
Many Patients Have PeCu.
liar WhimS
ATTElD&NTS DUTIES HARD
One Nurse Who Met LuCk-PatientS
Who Gan be Deceived Some
Notions Of The Sick
lTTENDGNTS DUTIES HlR.

Seven trained nurses were at dinner
few days ago in city hospital
where the rules are very strict, says
The New York Sun. They were talk
ing about the rules and declaring that
the life of a trained nurse was one OF
hardship when a very young nurse
spoke up and said that she had never
had a hard time Of it,
Well" said anoUher I'm not
going to put i'm four years for a GER
tificate, for I've had a tough time of
IT, and I'm going TO drop IT, uninA
it is anything but pleasant vocation
Here i'm the hospital we put in
sixteen hours of hard work a day and
only get enough money TO buy hal
ribbons. If had studied art and be-
come a drawing teacher | would have
to work only a few hours "a day.
And then l wouldn't have to stand
Che abuse of every one | come in con-
tact with. / had the case of that po- |
liceman who had typhoid fever Hell
get delerious and struck me in the face, |
almost breaking my jaw.
"Ihen l had crazy woman to take
care of and she insisted THAT / remain
with her all the time and eat every
thing she ate. She iked onions and /
didn't like them. The superintendent
told me would have to put up withl
the onions on I'd never get hold ofl
another private case.
We'll, / ate onions and l had that
sort Of thing for six weeks. Sine seem
ed TO like everything l didn't like and
! made up my mind half a dozen times
that / would throw up the job, but
held out to the end and then 1 thought
I'd have few weeks rest but | gotI
hold of a crank of a man who needed
attention all the time | was ON duty.
,"He WAS an Italian and insisted upon
making love to me when me wasn't
QuarreNng with me, and whenever
went near him 10 give him his medi
cine he tried to catch hold of me to
hug me, insisting THAT | was his sis
lter and that he had perfect right
TO hug me.
"rhe next case / had was a little
girl with n broken arm. She made me
play with her dolls all day, and her
mother insisted upon my doing
Kitchen work. so | made a kick and
was reported to the superintendent.
They brought me back TO the hospital
and gave me a setting out to beat the
band
"Well, ] thought had enough of
( private practice when they sent me to
"a house i'm Harlem where q young
woman was il SHE had a boy of a
husband w'hD insisted upon saying
nice things to me and The wife be
came Jealous and ordered me TO ,eave
'the house
81 had only been there three days
and did ncthing that wasn't proper.
was not tO blame for the way the
young husband acted That was his
fault ! think every nurse who lis
I young Is liable 90 cause trouble i'm a
household where There is a Jealous
wife
However. 1 had snap of it when
nurscd q very wealthy old man, who
paid me $40 day outside of what he
was paying to THE school for my SER
vices. / went with him to Mexico ani
took care of him for seven months
although me was not in more than one
? month.
~ made him believe he was g., and
he Thought he had pains all the time
G but ! had snap of IL and wanted Z,
travel around some, so / kept that fell
- low believing he was iM for six months
moro than he really was sick.
"But. just my luck, when he finally
llet me go l was sent out ON a private
case i'm Brooklyn. where I had to take
care of nervous woman. She be.
iovod all the time that ! might make
mistake in the medicines l was
giving her and would met permit me
to give amy Of the medicine | simply
staid In THAT house four days, for tho
woman's daughter told the hospiia
superintendent that She feared I migh
= poison her.
Almost every private patient ! evei
% had imagined that" remarked anCihel
; nurse. "Tbrce months ago ! was SEN
to attend a case of alcoholism i'm
wealthy family uptown. The patient
was a woman
"She was i'm the habit of getting uh
l'Willics' or ID. Us every night from
drinking cocktails Tho second nigh
was i'm The house She asked me for
glass of water and when / came witt
it she asked me to put little suga
iu tho water, saying it might quiet he
nerves.
"ro humor her I went to tho kitchol
and set some powdered sugar. Just al
WAS putting 10 in the water shl
INiAfhtAtNt fNAAMA AANANNlr anu NiNAi
things like that. I had TO stand Their
end continue putting the sugar In th
water cir nut down the glass and talk
hold Of the woman
81 thought as she had spoken Of put
ting sugar i'm the water she knew SIN.
was about 20 have a spell and wa
lanxicus to ward IL Off. so I continue,
to pour in the sugar just then all O
/, the servants rushed into the room
\ together with the woman's husban,
and her sister. Pointing to me sh
shouted:
"That woman Is a murderer TAX
F. her away! She said she was going t
give me n dose of poison because
slapped her while ] was dclirious am
row she is preparing the poison II
that glass OF water
"Of course J protested and said tha
it was only sugar that I was puttin
Ia the water but none Of the people ~
the fouse would believe me for the.