Allentown Nurses College - ANC Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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few-4,.7lfC6 The end of the War revealed an astonishing number of fake reforms and fake reformers, and, What is most to be regretted, Women espousing many of them. It never was and never will be correct for young ladies and married Women to be slumming in the vice districts of our larger cities. I mean some of these activities are morbid and useless, detached from organized bodies. If some of these Women would go in training there would be less dearth of nurses, and they would be members of an organized profession. Scenes of suffering, of sorrow, of dying, will demand the best side of human nature. A nurse's ministrations will ease the pain, and her sym- pathy Will comfort the sorrovving. Dying has no terrors-the bio-chemical changes are mercifully so insidious that death becomes a transition, of which the patient is unconscious. The living need your sympathy and generosity and real larg-eness of soul. . ,.:- -H '- . 1: 1' - 1.5 Y.: If x2 if 41' 'lu 45' ' .. -1 .. f K I W -15' 59551421291 ' ' ' - 1215-iiifgiigxl if i . L Page Fifteen

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. - b 6 1 3 s . natugebof thi iiilgllassinhlbeogsibinitdnliiepeiiimeven temperg nevertheless, 1tS we us e - . - ' h 'll b come those cases the nurse should soothe and satisfy, so. that t ey W1 y 9 77 friends and boosters N ,, ,, 77 ' boosters or kI10CkS1'S- Your manner to patients makes them . ' . fli ' Whenever I see a nurse in the ward I am remindleld gflifoevlgni . CIGUCY record. I note under Points Observed, W0f'dS hke t e 0 ' ver ' trying to a nurse and it PUNCTUALITY CONSCIENTIOUSNESS INTEREST THOROUGHNESS GENERAL DEPORTMENT RELIABILITY ATTENTION MANNER TO PATIENTS OBEDIENCE MANNER T0 OFFICIALS MEMORY , MANNER TO EQUALS NEATNESS MANNER TO SUBORDINATES ADAPTABILITY ' Believe me or not these are the very qualities that an education is supposed to strengthen. These are the very elements of culture that YOU need for success. If I were a junior nurse I'd score every day, for or against these items. If I did well or was commended, 4- g if exceedingly well, +-l- 5 if late, -3 if very late, : .5 if very kind to my patients, + -1- -1- 3 if the day passed without fuming and fussing and fulminat- ing, I'd give myself a hundred pluses. If the results of your training are what I claim they Should be, then you can cope with the present and future, confident that you possess intel- lectual forces that will conquer. Sooner or later in your training or after graduation, the experience will be bitter and heart-breaking. Are you fortified against slanders, villainous frame-ups, and rankling jealousies of a hard world, or its quips and knocks and shghts? The modern barbarian is the character assassin. Don't be afraid, don't be timid, but step out into your present and fut k ' ' ure wor boldly trusting 111 your own powers. If at any time you Heed Sympfflthy Hind 8 g00d CFY, g0 to your principal, She will understand. Be a l1ttle.b1t selfish, even though the theologiansresent this. Don't be so self-sacrificing and absorbed in your mission that you forget your own advancement. A larger field -may need you. Woman's highest function is to ' ' t - nurse, or to the members f i m1n1S er, whether to the slck, as a 0 a family, as th ' teacher. surely a nurse's sphere of worka 'mo er, or to the Chlld, as a spirit of service. There is no c ' gwes play for the overflowing pohtician shouting at 3 D Vt. fimpailosii between a nurse and a woman . 1 O1 ica gat ering an ' ' ' promiscuous crowd. d Sohcltmg the Votes of a Page Fourteen

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