The Good Nurse
1932; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 32; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1097/00000446-193209000-00023
ISSN1538-7488
Autores Tópico(s)Empathy and Medical Education
ResumoI HOPE you will live all your life. This is the thought, writes W. R. Bowie, in the preface On Being Alive 1 which runs through this book as its central thread. . Might not we say as nurses, Let us hope that we in all our nursing. In its purest form nursing is an art. But to nurse so as practice this art, the hands cannot be divided from the mind and the heart. Technically, nursing is the performing of procedure: the intelligent working together of the hands and the mind in the giving of a bath, the rubbing of a back, the application of a bandage. Humanely and in order rank as an art, it must be permeated with consideration and courtesy. There is the whose technic is faultless in her administration of a treatment, who is exact in her report of the effect of that treatment, and who can be depended upon carry out ward routines and carry them out well. She is the good technician. There is the who matches this good technician in intelligence and perfection of performance but who adds these abilities the sweetness of a gracious courtesy either by word or deed. She is the good nurse. Consider the human relations of the from the day she enters the hospital. First the patient. The first possession lost by the patient is that of personal independence. He is now dependent upon some other individual provide for his needs. His physical needs may be the least of his require-
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