For Nurses by L. A. Hansen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1916

For Nurses

By L. A. Hansen

THE proper, training of a nurse includes, besides the technical instruction and practical experience in the care of the sick, a training in conduct or ideals of personal living. The ideals of character and service which a nurse holds will greatly influence her practical work in all her nursing career.

The technical training is important, but the ethical training is in many respects no less so. Her calling often places her where she needs a keen sense of propriety and a good knowledge of rules and principles to guide her aright in moral conduct. The want of true culture cannot be made up by ever so good training in technique.

There has come to our desk a book just issued that we feel is worthy of special mention, and to which we wish to call the attention of our nurses. No doubt the superintendents of our training schools will receive a copy, and will make such use of it in class work as they think best. Graduate nurses would also do well to secure a copy. The plan of the book is such as to encourage reflection and meditation on ethical problems, and many of these drawn from life are presented.

The book contains twenty-six chapters, dealing with all phases of the nurse's work, as a student, in the hospital, and in private practice. Even a brief notice of the various important topics would make too much of a review for this column. There are three hundred and twenty pages. We are glad to recommend "Studies in Ethics for Nurses," by Charlotte A. Aikens. Price $1.75, postpaid. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, Pa. L. A. HANSEN.