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The Need of Better Nurses

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 4, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 49.

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The Need of Better Nurses

By L. A. H.

An editorial in a recent number of the Ladies' Home Journal calls attention to the complaint that is now being voiced by not a few persons connected with hospitals and the nursing profession, to the effect that there is a material decrease in the number of applicants for training as nurses. It is also stated that the personal standard of those applying is fast becoming lower. The demand is for “a higher grade of women as nurses, women of better education and finer feelings.”
This sentiment finds expression in several journals devoted to medicine and nursing, and is evidently indicative of a growing demand. Various suggestions are made to remedy what is felt to be a serious condition. It is recognized that the care of the sick requires a skill and a faithfulness that can be rendered only by persons of high qualifications.
If the world requires of its nurses such an elevated standard, what shall we say of the exalted character of the missionary nurse, who, in addition to giving the best possible service professionally, must rightly represent the cause of truth and so live that souls may be won to Christ? Surely the demand is all-imperative for an exalted view of her calling and for the most thorough preparation in every way for acceptable service. Only those of our own young people who recognize in this profession the call of God to a sacred work should think of entering it.
L. A. H.