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Another subject which , deserves careful attention is the question of presents . The institution pays the nurses , and the institution
receives the payment for their services , except when they are wholly or partially gratuitous . All this is most expressly pointed out , I
believe , in the regulations alike of the two London institutions and of this : and the nurses sign a promise that they will not receive
private pecuniary remuneration . There is obviously a difficulty inherent in this part of the arrangements , however it may be adjusted .
One thing seems clear , that patients or their friends are culpable , if under such circumstances , whether from gratitude or carelessness ?
they persuade nurses to accept clandestine gratuities . It is much to be -wished that a higher self-denial were present in acts of _g-enerosity ,,
and that the consequences of trifling with what seem little things were more carefully considered . In the case of our railway porters _?
for instance , who sign a promise that they will not receive gratuities , it is no light matter to undermine their sense of truth because we
are good natured or dislike to be thought shabby . One point of great importance is what may be called the
professional training of the nurses . Many who have every ca / pacity of character for becoming admirable in their calling , present themselves
without any special experience . Such experience and training can only be had in hospitals . This may be managed in two
ways—, either by bringing the hospital to the nurses' institution , or by taking the nurses to the hospital ; in other words , either hy making a
hospital an essential part of the institution itself , as at Kaiserswerth , or by providing that some of the nurses undertake the work of
attending the patients in an existing hospital , or some of its wards . The latter course has been followed in the arrangement recently
entered into between the sisters of St . John ' s House and King ' s College Hospital in London , where remarkable success has been
realised after many difficulties , as any one may see who reads what was printed on the subject in 1856 and 1857 . Herein the
Liver-, pool Institution , is undoubtedly a weak point at present . During * the time of their probation , which lasts two months , the nurses are
allowed hy the authorities to attend the wards of the Royal Infirmary , and there , under the direction of the official nursesto be
present at operations and learn by experience how to execut , e the orders of the surgeons . It is thought that at present heart-burnings
might be the result of a closer connection . It is , however , gratifying to learn that the medical gentlemen of the infirmary have
always expressed their satisfaction with the nurses of the institution . Indeed , when serious operations have been in prospect , their
services have been engaged for weeks previously . training But the 1 school hosp . ital Our oug hospita ht not l nursing to be itself spoken in of this here country simp is ly much as a
in need of improvement . It may be long before all is
accomdistant plislied when that is the desirable robbing . of But patients it is to in be our hoped hosp that itals , the or the time getting , is not
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/24/
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