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poise and recognized skill, you threw the weight of your
anxiety and dread, confident that now with her arrival, Betsy
would "soon be up again."
The Trained Nurse who comes into your and my home,
and that of the family across the street, represents ideals of
however
service that are nineteen centuries old. The modern nurse S tands
for more than sympathy and tenderness toward the sick; she stands
for skill, won through years of training and discipline, and for
and courage
strength of heart/which has come from long hours alone at night in
a
great hospital ward. And if she is an American Red Cross Nurse,
all
and another one besides
she has mero-that these qualifications/- she Patriotism.
4
There was a time not more than twölve years
ago that nurses did not wear the little crimson and gold pin
of the Red Cross Nursing Service at their throats. No such organ -
0
ization existed. In the late eighties, however , a nurse graduated
from a big hospital on the East Side of New York City, who in
company with a few equally devoted associates, -were to shape these nursing
ideals of the Red Cross into an organization known in almost every
corner of the world, and familar to the soldiers of almost every
nation.
In company with a few of her classmates, this
particular young graduate went almost imme to Jacksonville,
Florida, as Superintendent of Nurses of a big yellow-fever hospital.
The doctors who were also serving down there knew little if anything
about this scourge, but because she was very jealous of the
comfort of her patients, the Superintendent instructed her nurses
to cover the cots in the long wards with ordinary misquito netting, so
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