The selection of a nurse should receive careful consideration. She should be known to be honest, honorable, competent, healthy, and personally clean in habits and dress, and she should be tactful, obliging, and she should attend to her own affairs strictly. She should not be a gossip; she should not shirk her work or pry into family affairs that do not concern her; and she should not drag into the conversation her own personal or family secrets. The nurse has certain rights which the patient should willingly recognize. She is entitled to a comfortable bed, sufficient sleep, good food, and exercise in the open air every day. These are essential in order that [72] she maintain her own health, as well as keep at the highest point of efficiency. When you select your physician consult with him regarding your nurse. If you know personally a capable nurse, there is no objection to selecting her, and no physician will oppose this procedure if you assume the responsibility of her capability. There are many advantages, however, in permitting the physician to provide a nurse. He assumes the responsibility of the nurse's capability, and it is safe to assume he will not recommend one whom he knows to be personally objectionable, or professionally incapable. Every physician acquires certain individual methods in the conduct of maternity cases, which experience has taught him to be successful. A competent knowledge of these methods by the nurse greatly facilitates the details and ensures a harmonious conduct of the entire case,--facts which accrue to the comfort and the well-being of the patient.