Category: History - Modern (1750+)
their admission breaks down the standard which respectable women who are hospital nurses feel (quite as keenly as their superiors do in their own concerns) ought at once to restrain and to protect those engaged in this very peculiar, very trying, and very exposed work and life...
It seems to me most important that we should obtain the opinions both of hospital authorities and of a few able men of business, before laying down rules. The whole matter is so...
1. i. That real penitents are wrongly placed in hospital service, becausetheir admission breaks down the standard which respectable women who are hospital nurses feel (quite as keenly as their superiors do in their own concerns) ought at once to rest...
4. iv. That although the class must ever be a very mixed one, it is mostimportant to have a standard. Let it be necessary for every nurse to enter hospital with a good character, and to leave it on losing it. Deception, hypocrisy, and successful gui...
5. v. That although, for various and very differing reasons, thecertificates will be not unseldom untrustworthy, still the same reasoning will apply. Upon the whole the tendency will be, by requiring the condition of good character, to impro...
2. ii. That sincere but unconfirmed penitents, in addition to the above,3. iii. That sham penitents, who unhappily abound, are dangerous