This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII REORGANIZATION When Visiting Nursing was first started in this country there was no national organization, no unity or uniformity of work, and no standard beyond the standard of a graduate nurse--in fact, some of the early visiting nurses were not even graduates, and of course there were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII REORGANIZATION When Visiting Nursing was first started in this country there was no national organization, no unity or uniformity of work, and no standard beyond the standard of a graduate nurse--in fact, some of the early visiting nurses were not even graduates, and of course there were no postgraduate courses, for no one realized that they were needed. Public Health Nurses were supposed to be born, not made, and the only training they had was in the hard school of experience. A graduate nurse to give bedside care to those unable otherwise to obtain it, was the first requisite as then understood; later, it was found that certain social service was inevitably tied up with the nursing of the "sick poor"; and gradually, year by year, as experience and observation opened our eyes and our minds, there grew up a recognized line of procedure, a recognized standard of work, until it was finally realized that a "Graduate Nurse" was not a "Visiting Nurse" until she had passed through a certain period of probation and had a certain amount of experience in field work. In those early days organizations interested in public health, or in various medical problems, would engage nurses to visit and care for their particular patients, or to carry out the instructions given at social clinics, without reference to what was being done along more or less the same lines by other organizations in the same city. Finally the time came when many cities found themselves with 10, 20 or 100 or more Visiting Nurses (or Public Health Nurses, as they were then called) working in groups along different special lines of Public Health work, such as tuberculosis, infant welfare, maternity work, general district nursing, school nursing, etc., often without even...
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