Excerpt from Text-Book of the Principles and Practice of Nursing
The aim of this book is first to impress upon the student the fundamental principles of nursing, founded upon the ideals of service, its object being not only to help cure the sick and heal the wounded but to bring health and ease, rest and comfort to the suffering mind and body. Secondly, to emphasize the underlying principles of each practical procedure or treatment in addition to giving the method of procedure or technique. Only by a thorough education along these lines can the student reap the full richness from her profession or give to the patient the sympathetic, intelligent and skilled care necessary to his welfare and recovery.
The text covers the fundamentals in nursing, namely, the nursing care and treatments used in general medicine and surgery which are usually taught in the first and early part of the second year, the rest of the students training being devoted to the special branches of nursing. The nursing care and treatments used in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat are also fully discussed, because such care is frequently required in the general care of patients.
The technique given is based not on that of any one hospital but on underlying principles so it may be adapted to any condition or field of nursing, private or public, and to any hospital without interfering with one already established.
The writer has attempted to give, in one volume, the results of a rather long and varied experience in teaching both theoretical subjects and practical nursing in the classroom and in the wards of more than one hospital as head nurse, supervisor, or instructor, together with a wealth of material drawn from numerous reference books to which the average pupil does not have access.
The text is presented from the teaching standpoint. The material is divided into elementary and advanced nursing and an effort has been made to follow an order, used in most hospitals, which will not only meet the needs in the ward but will carry the student along in a logical order from the simple to the more difficult procedures which require not only more skill but a wider knowledge and experience.
The material is also divided into the two main divisions, - the nursing care and treatments used in medical diseases and those used in surgical diseases.
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