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1. Chapter XXXVII.
The Missionary Nurse.

2. Need of Nurses
• In almost every church there are young
men and women
• who might receive an education either
as physicians or
• nurses. They will never have a more
favorable opportunity
• than now. I would urge that this subject
be considered
• prayerfully, that special effort be made
to select those
• youth who give promise of usefulness
and moral strength.
• Let these receive an education at our
Sanitarium at Battle
• Creek, to go out as missionaries
wherever the Lord may call
• them to labor.--M. M., V. II, p. 216. p.
249, Para. 1,
• [HL]

3. Qualifications of Nurses
I could wish that there
were one hundred nurses
in training where there is
one. It
ought to be thus. Both
men and women can be
much more
useful as medical
missionaries than as
missionaries without
a medical education.--M.
M., V. II, p. 215. p. 249,
Para.
• 2, [HL]

4. The Nurse's Duty to Herself
• It is the duty of
• attendants and nurses in the sickroom to have a
special
• care for their own health, especially in critical cases of
• fever and consumption. One person should not be kept
• closely confined to the sickroom. It is safer to have two
• or three to depend upon, who are careful and
understanding
• nurses, these alternating and sharing the care and
• confinement of the sickroom. Each should have
exercise in
• the open air as often as possible. This is important to
• sickbed attendants, especially if the friends of the sick
• are among that class who continue to regard air, if
• admitted into the sickroom, as an enemy, and will not
allow
• the windows raised or the doors opened. The sick and
the
• attendants are in this case compelled to breathe the
• atmosphere from day to day, because of the
inexcusable
• ignorance of the friends of the sick.--H. to L., Chap. 4,
• p. 56. p. 250, Para. 1, [HL]

5. Suggestions to Nurses
• It is of great value to the
• sick to have an even temperature in the
room. This cannot
• always be correctly determined, if left to
the judgment of
• attendants, for they may not be the best
judges of a right
• temperature.--H. to L., Chap. 4, p. 54. p.
251, Para. 1,
• [HL].
• 1068. Few realize the effect of a mild,
firm manner, even
• in the care of an infant. The fretful,
impatient mother or
• nurse creates feverishness in the child in
her arms,
• whereas a gentle manner tends to quiet
the nerves of the
• little one.--H. R. p. 251, Para. 2, [HL].