Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-07-20
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pie, ones success depends much on
what sort OF impression one makes.
We have all felt how differently peo-
ple impress us. One person makes
VERY favorable impression upon us,
while another, on the other hand, is
more or less repulsive. Something
about them pleased or displeased and
that something was nothing more or
less than their disposition or person
ality. This believe is another very
important qualification necessary for
a nurse if she shall be Of much SER
vice and succeed in her calling. While
health and knowledge are leading re-
quisites, they will be of little avail
without a disposition that appeals to
i the patient and encourages his conf
dence and good will.
1t matters not what it is, if you want
the public to take notice, it must be at
tractive. It is no enough that it is
genuine and ingeniously made, it must
also appeal or make a good impress
sion. Likewise in this field of SER
vice. 1t is not enough that as far as
lhealth and education is concerned the
individual is we'll equipped, if her dis
position is such that she can't win
confidence her usefulness is greatly
hampered. A patient is much like
the flower, which opens it's petals
when the warm, life giving rays of the
sun touches it, and on the other hand
draws them together when the sun
! goes down and the dark, cold night
sets III. Therefore to assure sue
cess and opportunity for service a
i nurse must have a sunny disposition
it is impossible to estimate the inf1u-
ence of the sun-lit face of the nurse,
in the sick room Many one has
taken new courage and become desir-
Gus to live and thus assisted science
to return to health who without this in
fluence of this happy disposition
would have died. And again, how
many are there not, whose only cheer
and comfort in this world is what they
receive when the nurse with kind
and cheerful disposition comes into
1.-THE ward or the sick room to admins
ter medicine or rearrange the bedding,
that the patient might be more COM
Portable. For example, here is man
who has lost one or more of his limbs,
Whose future has been blighted and
darkened, even should he recover
from his injuries. And here another,
Whose vitals are fast wasting away
with some incurable disease, and to
make their plight still more lamenta-
BILE have no near and dear ones, or at
least too far away to be able to come
to their bedside and comfort them in
their dark, sad hours. How must
} not such one yearn for, and appre-
Eciate a face lit, up with cheer and
| kindness under such circumstances
And what boon to such patient
: whose attendant is one with a peace
May you, dear friends, cultivate this
Equality as much as possible and il
shall aid you very materially in per
\ forming this great work which you
I have started out to do.
But there is still another thought
that I feel I must leave with you be
! fore close and that is this: to make
good and efficient nurses you must
love your work above everything else
You may have good, health and thor
ough knowledge and have also most
: pleasing and winning disposition, anC
/. lyet fail, if you are not kindled with
Ian untiring love to alleviate pain anc
sorrow 1t is possible to be some
what deficient in some one of the
above named qualities and yet have
fairly good success, providing this ir
resistible force drives on one. Fol
love covereth multitude of sins ii
more than one respect. l venture thai
there are in this calling, like in many
others, persons who choose it and as
far as physical and mental equipment
goes are well qualified, but fail for the
! lack of this quality. They were at
ltracted by the honor it might bring OF
i the money they might make, anc
4 launched forth. But these do not be
Hong to the class of nurses, who have
4 very materially advanced their pro
4 fession nor accomplished much above
the ordinary. "A dog that has no in
stinct for hunting will not accomplish
much in the woods, no matter how
J fine. dog he otherwise may be, no.
will a person accomplish very mucl
in a vocation that there is very little
love for. There is so much drudgery
and hard work in every vocation, ant
not the least in nursing, that withou