An Open Letter To all young women who could be nurses
1944; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 44; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1097/00000446-194403000-00030
ISSN1538-7488
Autores Tópico(s)Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
ResumoDEAR SUE, You knew that it was going on all the while. Certainly! Remember how proud your brother Johnny was when his number was the first to come up? My, those boxes you used to put up for him! And the letters you'd write--when you had the time. But not long after it hit you a little harder. You won't forget Pearl Harbor, will you? That's when things really came down to earth and touched you. Why, in the very week following the attack every boy in your crowd joined up, including Dick. You took that pretty hard, didn't you? Still, you managed to take it on the chin. You did want him to go to the aid of his country-our country! And so there you were--stranded. Oh, your days were busy all right with Red Cross and war work. Yet with all of that you were lonesome. It seemed that you couldn't get accustomed to being left behind in the greatest drama of our lives. You are unhappy! You have tried blindly to find a way out. For a while you thought that you'd be able to forget, so you began a merry life of doing things and going places. Remember? But even that did not work out. You soon saw how useless it was. Things come and have to be accepted. You cannot cast them aside like old shoes; neither can you laugh them away, nor pretend that they don't exist. You were sensible enough to know that they are integral part of life that must be reckoned with. Now that almost brings us up to date. It was just last week that you received the letter from Dick telling you that he was in sick bay. He said that his nurse reminded him of you an awful lot. He said, too, that he often liked to pretend it was you because he knew that you would make a swell nurse. And so, that's where you first got the idea. But you quickly brushed it away. Why, you, a nurse? Whoever heard of anything so And then again and again the thought crept into your mind until you began to wonder, Is it really so silly? Maybe that was what you'd been looking for all the while, opportunity to play essential part! Oh, but then, when the girls heard about it they all laughed and said, You, a nurse. Forget it! But you can't forget it; night and day you struggle, torn between two desires. You want to go and yet you are afraid. Perhaps I can help you! Not so long ago, I was just like you. But now, there is no longer internal turmoil-here I have found comfort in the assurance that
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