Nurses lacking
Its horrifying revelations have nothing to do with that perennial excuse, “lack of money”, but illustrate the replacement of altruism and compassion by apathy and indifference.
In recent decades, in order to achieve professional equality with doctors, nurse training was taken away from the hospitals and turned into an academic university subject.
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Yet Florence Nightingale wrote that “the greater part of nursing consists in preserving cleanliness and if a girl declines to perform such functions, nursing is not her calling”.
(Dr) John Cameron
Howard Place
St Andrews