Woman is an instinctive nurse, taught by
Mother Nature. The nurse has always been a necessity, thus lacked social
status. In primitive times she was a slave, and in the civilized era a
domestic. Overlooked in the plans of legislators, and forgotten in the curricula
of pedagogues, she was left without protection and remained without education.
She was not an artisan who could obtain the help of a hereditary guild; there
was no Hanseatic League for nurses. Drawn from the nameless and numberless army
of poverty, the nurse worked as a menial and obeyed as a servant. Denied the
dignity of a trade, a devoid of professional ethics, she could not rise above
the degradation of her environment. It never occurred to the Aristotles of the
past that it would be safer for the public welfare if nurses were educated
instead of lawyers. The untrained nurse is as old as the human race; the
trained nurse is a recent discovery. The distinction between the two is a sharp
commentary on the follies and prejudices of mankind.
- VICTOR ROBINSON
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