Chapter 37—The Missionary Nurse
Need of Nurses
1060. In almost every church there are young men and women who
might receive an education either as physicians or nurses. They will
never have a more favorable opportunity than now. I would urge that
this subject be considered prayerfully, that special effort be made to
select those youth who give promise of usefulness and moral strength.
Let these receive an education at our Sanitarium at Battle Creek, to go
out as missionaries wherever the Lord may call them to labor.—
The
Medical Missionary, 216
.
Qualifications of Nurses
1061. I could wish that there were one hundred nurses in training
where there is one. It ought to be thus. Both men and women can
be much more useful as medical missionaries than as missionaries
without a medical education.—
The Medical Missionary, 215
.
1062. Attendants should be cheerful and hopeful.—
How to Live,
54
.
1063. The attendants should be unhurried, calm, and self-
possessed.—
How to Live, 59
.
1064. The mother may be an intelligent nurse and physician of
her own dear children. It is her right to have an understanding of her
own and her children’s organisms, that she may know how to treat her
children in sickness.—
The Health Reformer, June 1, 1873
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The Nurse’s Duty to Herself
1065. It is the duty of attendants and nurses in the sick-room to
have a special care for their own health, especially in critical cases
of fever and consumption. One person should not be kept closely
confined to the sick-room. It is safer to have two or three to depend
upon, who are careful and understanding nurses, these alternating and
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