The Trained Nurse Has Become

Care More For The Individual Patient Than For The Special Features Of The Disease. . . . Put Yourself In His Place . . . The Kindly Word, The Cheerful Greeting, The Sympathetic Look - These The Patient Understands.

To Have Striven, To Have Made The Effort, To Have Been True To Certain Ideals - This Alone Is Worth The Struggle.

The Great Majority Gave No Signs One Way Or The Other; Like Birth, Their Death Was A Sleep And A Forgetting.

But Whatever You Do, Take Neither Yourselves Nor Your Fellow-creatures Too Seriously. There Is Tragedy Enough In Our Daily Routine, But There Is Room Too For A Keen Sense Of The Absurdities And Incongruities Of Life, And In The Shifting Panorama No One Sees Better Than The Doctor The Perennial Sameness Of Men’s Ways.

Live Neither In The Past Nor In The Future, But Let Each Day's Work Absorb Your Entire Energies, And Satisfy Your Widest Ambition.