Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — Trained Nurses Who Loaf. [ARTICLE]

Trained Nurses Who Loaf.

“When a doctor finds a nurse reading a book about her profession and not a novel while she watches at the bedside of a patient,” saifl an uptown physl«ta% "that to tin anno ba Ulna to biro and to help. If the case turns ont well the doctor sometimes makes her a present of a book with up to date ideas on her profession which she might not be able to buy. One-half the trained nurses of the city are dependent upon the recommendations of physicians, and half the success of a physician depends on a good nurse; therefore a doctor likes a nurse who reads about her business, attends lectures and keeps up with the times. “You would be astonished to know how many lectures are given by physicians in New York every month that are open to trained nurses, but which few of them attend. There are a good many loafers among the trained nurses. They seem to think their study ended when they got their diplomas.”—New York Press.