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ness has been proved during the growth of the
service.

We perceived that it was undesirable to con-
dition the nurse's service upon the actual or
potential connection of the patient with a re-
ligious institution or free dispensary, or to
have the nurse assigned to the exclusive use of
one physician, and we planned to create a
service on terms most considerate of the dig-
nity and independence of the patients. We


felt that the nursing of
the sick in their homes
should be undertaken
seriously and ade-
quately; that instruc-
tion should be inci-
dental and not the pri-
mary consideration; that the etiquette, so far
as doctor and patient were concerned, should
be analogous to the established system of pri-
vate nursing; that the nurse should be as
ready to respond to calls from the people them-
selves as to calls from physicians; that she
should accept calls from all physicians, and with
no more red-tape or formality than if she were
to remain with one patient continuously.

The new basis of the visiting-nurse service
which we thus inaugurated reacted almost im-
mediately upon the relationship of the nurse

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Publication Information: Book Title: The House on Henry Street. Contributors: Lillian D. Wald - author, Abraham Phillips - illustrator. Publisher: H. Holt and Company. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1915. Page Number: 27.
    
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