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when one neighbor was willing to assist another and the profession of medicine and nursing started when the services of individuals proved more effective than those of their fellowmcn. All along the pages of history are men and women who stand out prominently because of their efforts in trying to answer these questions: What is the matter? What shall we do about it? And in more recent years conditions of nurses and laymen have also concerned themselves, how shall the costs be met?With the advent of Christianity there came a clear definition of the obligations which one individual has toward another. The Great Teacher described for the first time the “good neighbor policy.” As a result of His teaching that those who are in trouble are the neighbors, there arose an increasing desire to help those who could not help themselves. As a result of this, alms houses were built to give succor to the indigent and care and treatment for the sick. Religious orders were established in the wake of Christian volunteers, but it was not until Florence Nightingale returned from Pastor Fleidner's home in Kaiserwerth, Germany, that nursing became a science. She took the qualities she found among the nuns and other orders devoted to the care of the sick, modified the uniforms and headgear, thus preserving the devotion, the uniformness, and adding to it the scientific knowledge as it pertains to the treatment of the sick as it was known in her day. Hospitals received a new birth and instead of becoming the depositories of the indigent poor and those afflicted with contagious disease, they became havens of refuge to which one«• • i • r t -11'would contract another within its walls.It is easier to understand this problem by reducing it to the simplest terms: What is a school of nursing, or what is education? In this simplest language an educational process requires a teacher, a pupil, and a patient, and the necessary appertinenccs in order to provide the patient with modern, scientific, diagnostic treatment facilities. The small hospital has the patients and everyone will agree that the problem of illness is identical in the large and small hospital. As a matter of fact, the problem of illness is with the individual patient. It is also an historic fact that pupil nurses have been seeking admission to the schools of nursing in small hospitals all over this land. So there remains just one factor which, as I see it, should determine whether a small school of nursing should exist and that is the teacher Any hospital which is willing to provide pupil nurses with good teachers and good supervision i capable of practicing good nursing and making good nurses to the extent of their medical facilities. II one hospital cannot cover the entire nursing curriculum, maybe a group of hospitals can do it better togeth er. Certainly they can teach certair segments of nursing procedure ex ccedingly well and to the extenl that this can be accomplished ii should be encouraged. Schools oi nursing keep alive the spirit of in quiry and enhance the scientific approach to medical problems. Thii benefits everyone concerned—tin patients, the* nurses or other attend ants-—all who in one way or anoth er serve the sick.In delining for you what I con sider a well-rounded medical proPnm I hflVf* IhruicnnH nnr
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Thu, May 29, 1941
Page 9
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Marla D.
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