Notable Women of Modern ChinaBurton, Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine)
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Notable Women of Modern China
Burton, Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine)
China -- Biography; Women -- Biography
"I am blessed with five consecrated young women," she says, "who
have completed a course of nursing and studies with me, and I have
divided the work into different departments, holding them
responsible for the work and for the younger nurses under them. For
instance, one of the graduates is the matron, who looks after all
the housekeeping and the accounts, watching for the best market
time for buying each article in connection with the diet, the best
foodstuff for the money expended, and looks after each and all of
the servants so that they do their work properly. Another graduate
nurse looks after the dispensary, the filling of prescriptions, the
weighing and compounding of medicines, and superintends the sale of
drugs in that department. Another one has charge of all in-patients
upstairs, and another downstairs, including private cases, with
junior nurses under her. These look after the special diet, and the
carrying out of orders in all the wards and the charting of
records. (This is done in English.) Still another nurse has charge
of the operating room, with all of the sterilization necessary for
all major and minor operations, the distillation of water, and the
responsibility of going out to cases with the doctor. In this way
it is arranged that in case of all operations the one doctor has
her assistants in the operating room, and yet does not interfere
with the regular working of the hospital."
"Dr. Stone is multiplying herself many-fold by her splendid training of
nurses in the Kiukiang hospital," is the verdict of Mrs. Bashford, wife of
the Methodist Missionary Bishop of China. She has watched Dr. Stone's work
with keen and intelligent interest, and her opinion seems to be justified
by the results. When after weeks of unusual strain Dr. Stone was persuaded
to take a short vacation in the mountains back of Kiukiang, her corps of
fourteen nurses, five of them graduates, kept up the work of the hospital,
and treated about eighty patients a day in the dispensary. Twice, in answer
to telegrams, Dr. Stone returned to Kiukiang, only to find each time that
everything had been done to her entire satisfaction. "Were it not for the
efficient help I have from my nurses, I should not be able to manage this
work at all," she says.
Doubtless one great reason for Dr. Stone's success in raising up efficient
workers is her confidence in them, and her sympathetic attitude toward
them. "I believe many a valued worker is lost to her profession through
lack of sympathy and encouragement when needed," she once said. "Surely the
Lord values the workers as well as His work, and we who want our work to
prosper cannot afford to ignore the interests of those upon whom we depend
so largely for success."
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