The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-03-12
TRAINED NURSES.
The NobIest of Cailings for the
Right Kind of Women.
BY WILL II. MASON, NATIONAL MILITARY
HOME, MILWAUKEE, WIS.

BY WILL II. MASON, NATIONAL MILITARY
HOME, MILWAUKEE, WIS.
1t is my solemn conviction that were
| I young man of robust health, and had
no inclination for matrimony. l would
| choose for a profession that of n trained
nurse ard labor to win respect for my
uniform. The mission to care for the sick
and make them happy is certainly q noble
ore, and by no one is this problem OF
happiness so well worked out to joy
full conclusion as by the well-trained hos
pital nurse. She knows that a cheerful
countenance in the sck-rOom Immediately
creates cheerfulness in her patients and
paves the way for somebody in this
mucll-abused world of ours to be glad
that she is alive. There and then she
feels in tile depths of her heart that she
is wanted in the particular sphere in
| which it is her ambition to excel.
The writer of this article has had an
extensive experience with women nurses,
and not infrequently has it been his mis-
fortune to come in contact with n very
| few Indifferent Ones-so-called nurses"
who never intended to become hospital
nurses and who consequently were out of
harmony with such environment, and out
of sympathy with the sick and afflicted
| in Homes. Such nurses lacked the am
|
stitute the essential characteristics of the
successfully trained nurse. To become
successful in her calling Il nurse must
know how to keep her temper and be
amiable; must be something more than
Il mere machine giving drink or doing
Il service only when spurred to do so
much like the wooden Indians wound up
in stores.
The character and disposition of the
true nurse is such as to inspire conf
dence in others, and her upright, faith
| full discharge of duty makes her indis-
pensable to the patients assigned to her.
Such devotion to her profession estab-
fishes an equilibrium between nurse and
patient, and produces that feeling of sat
isfactiOn, rest and harmony calculated to
dispel the gloom consequent upon physical
weakness. A shining contrast is she to
the dark, slack, Indifferent nurse who
| puts no more energy her business
than she is paid for. What does she
know or care for the many, many sooth-
ing touches for which the helpless, and
often unconscious, suffer er can never pay!
Nothing! Thank Heaven, such soon tire
of the calling and retire from the field
of ''morose and unreasoning men," it be-
ing sclf-evident fact to them that sick
men are not only unreasOning, but peev-
| ish and obnoxious men. and not few
of them noted for tricks that are vain,
and ways that are dark"
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of transmitting gloom into sunshine. All
doors are open to such nurses. God bless
| them! In the sick-room they are better
than the physician, and Oftentimes more
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10 KNOW that there are SOUS pesiue them
the happier Ior their ll1tie aeeds oI KIM
hesS,-tne cheering words thit hiade thls
world tne brighter 1or their passing
through II.
1t Is sishlhcaht 1act that' attired IN
her UNIFORM; the framed nurse can go
alone at mldhlght 10 the West sums sum IN
the city, or 10 the palaces OF the 4oo, ana
the worst thug whose lie Is spent circu-
lating in darkness Will stand aside to let
her pass; ana, III many instances, nave
they been known to follow lest evil be-
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