On Being Ill by Virginia; Stephen Woolf

Author:Virginia; Stephen Woolf [Woolf, Virginia; Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780819580917
Publisher: Wesleyan UP
Published: 2021-09-24T05:00:00+00:00

NOTES FROM SICK ROOMS

PREFACE

My experience both as nurse and as patient has been too limited to justify me in adding to the existing stock of notes upon nursing, were it not that I have taken pains to note down things which have come under my actual observation, either as giving relief, or causing discomfort to the sufferer. I must leave much that is obvious unsaid, and I am aware that I say much which seems too obvious to require saying.

My excuse must be that I have wished to keep strictly to what I have learnt, or unlearnt, in sick rooms. I do not pretend to lay down any large rules as to nursing, but I wish to point out how some of the many disagreeable circumstances attendant upon illness may be diminished or removed. I have been able to watch the nursing of experienced hospital nurses, and I have been with those who had the highest characters for efficiency, and with those who were neither trained nor efficient, but who yet had something to teach.

I have also had the actual nursing of some cases, and have suffered too much from my own shortcomings not to wish to turn them to account for others.

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