nurse-calling

Updated: June 3, 2025

But I do say that these women had the true nurse-calling the good of their sick first, and second only the consideration what it was their "place" to do and that women who wait for the housemaid to do this, or for the charwoman to do that, when their patients are suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

Florence Nightingale - Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not