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  • Jeff's father is dead and his mother is in a nursing home.
  • Alex was sitting on the porch swing, nursing a cup of coffee the morning they arrived to work on the house.
  • Martha's father suffered a heart attack when she was in nursing school and her mom followed, from a broken heart, seven weeks later.
  • Alex had warned her against nursing him too long, but it seemed right at the time.
  • The male schools, therefore, stand somewhat apart, though they mark a stage in the evolution of nursing as the earliest regular training establishments.
  • In 1838 the Society of Friends founded a nursing organization in Philadelphia, and in 1840 Mrs Fry, a member of the same community, started the Institution of Nursing Sisters in London.
  • He could have gone to a nursing home so he wasn't such a burden on his daughter.
  • Josh was sitting at the table nursing a cup of coffee with Alex.
  • He proposed to accomplish this by carefully nursing her resources, and in the meantime securing and enriching her by alliances, which would bring in large subsidies while imposing a minimum of obligations.
  • Nursing, as a popular or fashionable occupation, is not a modern invention.
  • In Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium scientific nursing is in a backward state.
  • Sonya and Natasha were nursing him.
  • Pete stood and looked down at Davis, who was silently nursing his coffee.
  • Would she spend the rest of her life traveling back and forth from a hospital or nursing home?
  • Nursing a cratered heart, he stepped into Hell, well aware he had nowhere else to go.
  • Dean spent the next hour nursing two beers and telephoned again, still without success.
  • Her biggest problem now would be explaining things to her boyfriend, who was probably still nursing his wounds.
  • Today she was absent, home nursing child number five, down with a spring fever, or just plain Spring Fever.
  • Alex was standing on the porch, leaning on the rail and nursing a cup of coffee.
  • Keaton was lounging in the doorway, nursing a steaming cup of coffee.
  • The syncretism of the Babylonian and the Persian religion was also the nursing-ground of Gnosticism.
  • Neale was strongly high-church in his sympathies, and had to endure a good deal of opposition, including a fourteen years' inhibition by his bishop. In 1855 he founded a nursing sisterhood named St Margaret's.
  • Throughout the continuance of the government under the provincial charter, there was a constant struggle between a prerogative party, headed by the royal governor, and a popular party who cherished recollections of their practical independence under the colonial charter, and who were nursing the sentiments which finally took the form of resistance in 1775.
  • The development of sick-nursing, which has brought into existence a large, highly-skilled, and organised profession, is one of the most notable features of modern social life.
  • Organized nursing does not appear to have formed any part of medical treatment, except in so far as the deacons of the church attended on the poor, until the 4th century of the Christian era.
  • These institutions were managed by the clergy, and throughout the dark and middle ages the hospital and nursing systems were connected with religious bodies.
  • The order of St Vincent de Paul, founded in 1633 for the express purpose, is still the largest nursing organization in the world.
  • In Protestant countries a secular nursing system came in with the Reformation.
  • In 1838 the Society of Friends founded a nursing organization in Philadelphia, and in 1840 Mrs Fry, a member of the same community, started the Institution of Nursing Sisters in London.
  • The work undertaken and accomplished by this lady was far more important than the mere nursing of sick and wounded soldiers.
  • In the same year the first district nurse began work in Liverpool; and in 1865 the reform of the much-neglected workhouse nursing was inaugurated by Miss Agnes Jones and twelve nurses from St Thomas's, who took up the work in Liverpool.
  • In Germany the Albert Nursing Society was founded by Queen Carola of Saxony, and the Alice Society by the Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse, both in 1867.
  • In France, where the nursing was comparatively well performed by the religious orders, no change was made until 1877, when a training school was opened in Paris by the municipality, and two others by the Assistance Publique, in connexion with the Salpetriere and Bicetre Hospitals.
  • It remained for the third influence to complete the work begun and to develop systematic nursing to its present dimensions.
  • Nursing does not appear to be regulated by law in any country, though attempts in this direction had been made in England.'
  • They live in a home attached to the institution, under a matron, and in the most modern establishments each nurse has a separate bedroom, with common dining and recreation rooms. Private nursing staffs are attached to several of the hospitals; they are recruited from the staff nurses and probationers on completion of their course, and supply nurses to private patients.
  • It was founded in 1887 with the object of providing skilled nursing for the sick poor in their own homes.
  • A great many of the provincial nursing associations are affiliated to it.
  • This is perhaps the commonest system, but some of the best nursing homes give a somewhat higher fixed salary without any percentage.
  • To complete this account of the organization in Great Britain a few details with regard to special nursing are added.
  • The Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland holds examinations and grants certificates in mental nursing; candidates must undergo three years' regular training, with instruction by lectures, &c., which may be obtained in a large number of public asylums by arrangement with the Association; one county asylum (Northampton) gives its own certificates after a three years' course.
  • Cottage and village nursing are varieties of the same department; the former is organized on the benefit system, and aims at supplying domestic help and sick-nursing combined in rural districts for an annual subscription of from 2s.
  • The usual course for nursing is not less than three months, and for midwifery not less than six months; a premium is required of 12 or 13 guineas for three months, and 25 guineas for six months.
  • Other organizations are The Army Nursing Reserve and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Reserve, and there is also a nursing reserve attached to the territorial forces.
  • In France a great deal of the nursing was formerly in the hands of religious orders, but there too the hospital school system, inaugurated in 1877, has grown.
  • In Russia nursing is mainly in the hands of the Red Cross Society, whose members are, however, trained in the hospital schools.
  • The Red Cross Society provides a certain amount of trained nursing, and next to it the bestorganized work is done by religious orders; but the nursing in the hospitals appears to be still in a neglected state.
  • Neither he nor she said a word about what "Natasha nursing him" might mean, but thanks to this letter Nicholas suddenly became almost as intimate with the princess as if they were relations.
  • She was nursing her boy when the sound of Pierre's sleigh was heard at the front door, and the old nurse--knowing how to please her mistress-- entered the room inaudibly but hurriedly and with a beaming face.
  • Promptly at nine, she removed her apron and crossed to the table where Cade sat nursing his fifth cup of coffee.
  • She stopped, suddenly aware that Cade was propped against the kitchen door jam, nursing a cup of coffee.
  • While she truly loved nursing, she too reveled in our accomplishments, second only to her unborn child.
  • No. Nursing his wounds, I suspect.
  • Fred was still hanging on to the trashcan when the bartender, two painters and Dean, still nursing his head and his elbow, reached him.
  • Saturday morning Alex was lounging against the kitchen counter nursing a cup of coffee while she fixed breakfast.
  • Thus nursing became a menial office and an inferior means of livelihood, adopted by women of the lower orders without any training or special skill; and so it continued down to the middle of the 19th century, when a new movement began which was destined to revolutionize the status of the nurse.
  • On the continent institutes for nursing deaconesses were founded at Strassburg, Utrecht, Berlin, Breslau, Konigsberg and Carlsruhe between 1842 and 1851.
  • The nursing at King's College Hospital was for many years undertaken by this society, whose members were trained at the hospital.
  • In the meantime several nursing societies, in addition to those previously mentioned, had been founded in England, and elsewhere.
  • The qualifications for a Queen's nurse are as follows: (r) training at an approved general hospital or infirmary for two years; (2) approved training in district nursing for not less than six months, including the nursing of mothers and infants after child-birth; (3) nurses in country districts must in addition have had at least three months' approved training in midwifery.
  • A large number of children's hospitals throughout the country give regular training in the nursing of children; they take probationers at a somewhat earlier age than the general schools; the course is usually shorter (one or two years), and the salaries slightly lower.
  • Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service was organized in 1902.
  • Other organizations are The Army Nursing Reserve and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Reserve, and there is also a nursing reserve attached to the territorial forces.
  • He did not know that since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they did still harder work on their own land.
  • The Royal Naval Nursing Service is organized on much the same basis.
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