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Making Good on Private Duty, Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses by Harriet Camp LounsberyThe American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Nov., 1912), pp. 156-157Published by: Lippincott Williams & WilkinsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3404261 .

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BOOK REVIEWS

IN CHARGE OF

M. E. CAMERON, R.N.

MAKING GOOD ON PRIVATE DUTY, PRACTICAL HINTS TO GRADUATE

NURSES. By Harriet Camp Lounsbery, R.N., president of the West

Virginia State Nurses' Association, sanitary school inspector for Charleston Independent School District. Price $1.00. J. B.

Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. This book, made up largely from papers contributed to the Trained

Nurse and to THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING, has already a number of friends. However valuable the original papers, they lacked the form and style which the author adds to the finished volume. It is

pleasant indeed to note in these days of commercialism that our profes- sion still numbers those who cherish the higher ideals, and who show. us where to look for the compensating side in the hardest and least attrac- tive of the various kinds of nursing. For that it is the hardest every nurse will allow; and for this reason will choose in preference any of the branches that offer outside work and undisturbed nights, as school nurs-

ing, district work, etc. Mrs. Lounsbery paints no fancy picture of private duty work, however, for she touches upon the saddest and most trying phases of it. There is the chronic case, that only ends in death, the confinement case, where two patients are counted as one, and where the nurse must sleep with one eye open and yet be fresh for the double task of the day. There are, hardest of all, the jealous and critical friends of the patient, who continually weigh the nurse in the balance, with far from satisfying results. Mrs. Lounsbery grants you all these disadvan-

tages but compels you to feel that the difficulties will all vanish before faithful work and judicious tact. She knows well the forlorn sensation that takes possession of the young nurse, who finds the loneliness of her

position one of its hardest features, and who misses the stimulation of exciting hospital work, where there are constant happenings, and where there is comradeship of one's fellow nurses; and knowing these things from her own experience, she writes just what is helpful and what the

young nurse will do well to follow closely. There is no other book of its kind, so far, in nursing literature. There is in it wonderfully little

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that one looks for in a text-book, but it contains all those small and yet important things that are sure to be missing if one looks for them in the usual text-book of nursing. If it were not that it is the most prac- tical common-sense, one might class it with the books for the spiritual guidance of the nurse. Certain it is, that unless the nurse makes the

principles outlined in the text of this book her guide, she will neither

go far, nor help others on the way. On the other hand, by accepting its guidance and standards, one can find many compensations in the field of private duty, make many friends for one's self, and find ample oppor- tunity for developing one's intelligence and usefulness, beside bringing credit to one's profession.

HOSPITAL SISTERS AND THEIR DUTIES. By Eva C. E. Liickes, matron of the London Hospital; author of "Lectures on General Nursing." Fourth Edition. Price 2/6 net. The Scientific Press Limited, 28-29

Southampton St., Strand, W. C., London. The new edition of Miss Liickes' book will be received with grateful

thanks by her American readers. There has been a thorough revision, and much of the matter has been rewritten. The book retains its original feature of minute detail of a nurse's deportment, which makes it unique, and has brought such a demand for it that it has been translated into French and German. Ward management, the relationship between the head nurse or "Sister" and her staff of nurses and probationers, the

training of probationers, the nurses and their patients, ward maids and their supervision, and, finally, the preliminary training home are all dealt with in turn, each subject being demonstrated through every part, with painstaking care for every detail.

PHYSIOLOGY MADE EASY. By Lucy Brooks, late Sister at the Victoria

Hospital, Hull, England; graduate of the General Infirmary, Leeds. Price 1/6 net. The Scientific Press Limited, 28-29 Southampton St., Strand, London WV. C. A little manual, which will be found useful when used for blackboard

teaching in conjunction with the ordinary technical books on these subjects. It consists of illustrations, with notes and questions. The drawings are extremely simple and one need not be an artist to reproduce them, yet they give an intelligent idea of the various parts, their use, and their relation to the human body.

that one looks for in a text-book, but it contains all those small and yet important things that are sure to be missing if one looks for them in the usual text-book of nursing. If it were not that it is the most prac- tical common-sense, one might class it with the books for the spiritual guidance of the nurse. Certain it is, that unless the nurse makes the

principles outlined in the text of this book her guide, she will neither

go far, nor help others on the way. On the other hand, by accepting its guidance and standards, one can find many compensations in the field of private duty, make many friends for one's self, and find ample oppor- tunity for developing one's intelligence and usefulness, beside bringing credit to one's profession.

HOSPITAL SISTERS AND THEIR DUTIES. By Eva C. E. Liickes, matron of the London Hospital; author of "Lectures on General Nursing." Fourth Edition. Price 2/6 net. The Scientific Press Limited, 28-29

Southampton St., Strand, W. C., London. The new edition of Miss Liickes' book will be received with grateful

thanks by her American readers. There has been a thorough revision, and much of the matter has been rewritten. The book retains its original feature of minute detail of a nurse's deportment, which makes it unique, and has brought such a demand for it that it has been translated into French and German. Ward management, the relationship between the head nurse or "Sister" and her staff of nurses and probationers, the

training of probationers, the nurses and their patients, ward maids and their supervision, and, finally, the preliminary training home are all dealt with in turn, each subject being demonstrated through every part, with painstaking care for every detail.

PHYSIOLOGY MADE EASY. By Lucy Brooks, late Sister at the Victoria

Hospital, Hull, England; graduate of the General Infirmary, Leeds. Price 1/6 net. The Scientific Press Limited, 28-29 Southampton St., Strand, London WV. C. A little manual, which will be found useful when used for blackboard

teaching in conjunction with the ordinary technical books on these subjects. It consists of illustrations, with notes and questions. The drawings are extremely simple and one need not be an artist to reproduce them, yet they give an intelligent idea of the various parts, their use, and their relation to the human body.

that one looks for in a text-book, but it contains all those small and yet important things that are sure to be missing if one looks for them in the usual text-book of nursing. If it were not that it is the most prac- tical common-sense, one might class it with the books for the spiritual guidance of the nurse. Certain it is, that unless the nurse makes the

principles outlined in the text of this book her guide, she will neither

go far, nor help others on the way. On the other hand, by accepting its guidance and standards, one can find many compensations in the field of private duty, make many friends for one's self, and find ample oppor- tunity for developing one's intelligence and usefulness, beside bringing credit to one's profession.

HOSPITAL SISTERS AND THEIR DUTIES. By Eva C. E. Liickes, matron of the London Hospital; author of "Lectures on General Nursing." Fourth Edition. Price 2/6 net. The Scientific Press Limited, 28-29

Southampton St., Strand, W. C., London. The new edition of Miss Liickes' book will be received with grateful

thanks by her American readers. There has been a thorough revision, and much of the matter has been rewritten. The book retains its original feature of minute detail of a nurse's deportment, which makes it unique, and has brought such a demand for it that it has been translated into French and German. Ward management, the relationship between the head nurse or "Sister" and her staff of nurses and probationers, the

training of probationers, the nurses and their patients, ward maids and their supervision, and, finally, the preliminary training home are all dealt with in turn, each subject being demonstrated through every part, with painstaking care for every detail.

PHYSIOLOGY MADE EASY. By Lucy Brooks, late Sister at the Victoria

Hospital, Hull, England; graduate of the General Infirmary, Leeds. Price 1/6 net. The Scientific Press Limited, 28-29 Southampton St., Strand, London WV. C. A little manual, which will be found useful when used for blackboard

teaching in conjunction with the ordinary technical books on these subjects. It consists of illustrations, with notes and questions. The drawings are extremely simple and one need not be an artist to reproduce them, yet they give an intelligent idea of the various parts, their use, and their relation to the human body.

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