The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications: A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign — John Shaqi
The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications: A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis CampaignLa Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold)
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The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications: A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign
La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold)
Tuberculosis -- Nursing; Tuberculosis -- Nursing -- United States -- History
In the anti-tuberculosis campaign the nurse must look to medical science
for the plan and inspiration of her work. Her attitude in the
tuberculosis campaign must always conform to the medical attitude,
although she may and indeed has added valuable material for building up
this attitude. It is because this intimate relation exists that I have
briefly outlined the medical impression of the tuberculosis campaign. It
is quite natural that it should represent at the same time the nurse’s
attitude. My object was to point out the numerous factors concerned in
the anti-tuberculosis crusade, their interrelation, and the quite
natural and necessary specialization that must occur. The field of the
nurse and particularly the municipal nurse is circumscribed, but it is
large enough to engage all her energy and devotion. It is not necessary
nor even desirable that she should diffuse her interest and energy over
the adjoining fields.
For more than ten years Miss La Motte and I have been engaged in working
at the same problems, from the same broad though different personal
viewpoint. Our work has brought us into almost daily contact. I
acknowledge, with gratitude, the many valuable suggestions that I have
borrowed from her experience, and in reading her book I note with the
greatest satisfaction what I believe to be evidence of influence from
the experience I have gained. It is a pleasure to find that after years
of arduous work we agree at least upon what is the fundamental problem
of the tuberculosis campaign, namely—institutional care of the advanced
cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. I think it is right and proper that
Miss La Motte has made this fact the guiding principle of her book, and
that she has shown the relation of nursing activity to its furtherance,
and that she has held all other phases of tuberculosis work subservient
to it. To avoid misunderstanding it may be necessary to point out that
other features of the anti-tuberculosis campaign have been merely
touched upon or entirely ignored. This apparent slight is not offered, I
am sure, as a reflection upon the value of these features; they are
omitted simply to accentuate more boldly the dominant idea of the
nurse’s work.
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