Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

The Health of the Nurse to Be Considered
It is the duty of attendants and nurses to take
special care of their own health, especially in
critical cases of fever and consumption. One
person should not be kept closely confined to the
sickroom. It is safer to have two or three to depend
upon, who are careful and understanding nurses,
these changing and sharing the care and
confinement of the sickroom. Each should have
exercise in the open air as often as possible. This is
important to sickbed attendants, especially if the
friends of the sick are among the class that
continue to regard air, if admitted into the
sickroom, as an enemy, and will not allow the
windows raised or the doors opened. In such cases
the sick and the attendants are compelled to breathe
the poisonous atmosphere from day to day because
of the inexcusable ignorance of the friends of the
sick.
In very many cases the attendants are ignorant
of the needs of the system, and of the relation that
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