Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate NursesLounsbery, Harriet Camp
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Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses
Lounsbery, Harriet Camp
Private duty nursing
She can show how useful the knowledge of chastity is to a boy-the
strength that comes from self-control, the weakness that follows
self-indulgence, the danger to himself and to those he really
loves when he contaminates himself with prostitutes. A young man
once said to a friend of mine, "Oh! if my mother had only warned
me of the suffering I would cause myself and others, I never would
have polluted my body and shamed my soul." The nurse should know
how to instruct the mother as to the signs of self-abuse in her
little boys, so that she may know what causes the nervous
movements, the pallor, the fitful appetite, the dark circles under
the eyes, the listlessness, the fondness for being alone--any one
of which should call for extreme watchfulness. All these things a
nurse should be sure to know, so that, as far as in her lies, she
should be one more earnest woman striving to make the world better
for her having lived and worked in it. A wise man has given this
quaint description of a perfectly educated man: "When a man knows
what he knows, when he knows what he does not know, when he knows
where to go for what he should know, I call that a perfectly
educated man." So with the nurse. When she finds a social problem
with which she is not familiar, let her turn to this list of
books, magazine articles, and pamphlets upon the subject: Chapman,
Rose R., The Moral Problems of Children; Dock, Lavinia L., Hygiene
and Morality; Hall, Winfield Scott, Reproduction and Sexual
Hygiene; Henderson, Charles W., Education with Reference to Sex;
Lyttelton, E., Training of the Young in the Laws of Sex; Morley,
Margaret W., The Renewal of Life; Morrow, Dr. P. A., Social
Diseases and Marriage; Saleeby, Caleb W., Parenthood and Race
Culture; Wilson, Dr. Robert N., The American Boy and the Social
Evil, The Nobility of Boyhood, 50 cents (contained in "The
American Boy and the Social Evil"); Hall, Stanley, Educational
Problems, Chapter on the Pedagogy of Sex, Adolescence, Youth;
Northcoate, H., Christianity and Sex Problems; Janney, Dr. Edward
O., The White Slave Traffic in America; Report of the 3 8th
Conference of Charities and Corrections, in Boston, June, 1911,
Sex-Hygiene Section; Kauffman, Reginald Wright, The House of
Bondage; Summary of the Chicago Vice Commission, in the May number
of _Vigilance_; Education with Reference to Sex in the August
number of _Vigilance_ (published monthly at 156 Fifth Ave.,
New York City, at five cents per copy); The Cause of Decency,
Theodore Roosevelt, _Outlook_, July 15, 1911; articles on The
Causes of Prostitution in _Collier's Weekly_, from time to
time, since April 1, by Reginald Wright Kauffman; articles on the
Necessity for Teaching Sex Hygiene, in _Good Housekeeping_,
beginning with the September number; Dr. Dale's articles on Moral
Prophylaxis, in the JOURNAL OF NURSING since the July number;
Instructing Children in the Origin of Life, Elisabeth Robinson
Scovil, in October JOURNAL OF NURSING; Leaflets and pamphlets
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