Proceedings Of The Annual Convention Of The Maryland State Association Of Graduate Nurses

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ISBN 13 : 9780656161812
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Maryland State Association of Graduate Nurses written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Maryland State Association of Graduate Nurses: Held at Baltimore, January 30th and 31st, 1906 Now the impulse that brought you together two years ago may not have been perfectly clear to you. Of course you were all just as nice as you could possibly be, attached to each other and proud of your profession, but that did not seem a sufficient reason for making a State association. You were, however, engaged in one calling, and realizing certain obligations which had probably not been clear to you when entering upon your profession, but when you formed an association the scope and breadth of your common purpose soon became clear to you. I dare say you had the view that by a united effort you could make your work more effective; you could keep step with events. Nobody can keep step with events. Human progress is never in a straight line. It must go zigzag, like a calf path across the lot. Those who are wise enough to see three or four steps in advance usually go beyond those three or four steps, and they are likely to meet obstacles. There is no such thing as progress in a straight line toward any desirable object. Our wobbly way of human progress is always ill described, as the Seaboard Air Line describes its route from here to the South, by drawing a map of the country on an elastic sheet and sticking a pin at each end of the route. Then by pulling the opposite corners of the sheet you can make the route come straight, and when the map has been distorted you imagine the route to be straight. But, if you get in the cars and ride over the route, you will find the sun shining on both sides of your train in the same hour. SO it is with any undertaking in which many persons are engaged. A party division can usually be found in any group of people who are united for a common purpose, and frequently this division is so deep and broad that we Speak of it as factional. There is always one group of people distinguished as conservatives. They usually like to be called conservative. There is another group of people who are called radicals, and they try to like their designation. The conservatives have a distinct impression that they are the more intelligent group. The radicals have an impres sion that they are more progressive. In a sense they are both right. One characteristic of the conservatives - I speak from great experience, and may as well confess that I am giving you what is commonly called wisdom. Wisdom you know is one of the penalties of human experience, a kind of deferred dividend on your plans in life and by the time you get it, it is no longer useful to you in your own affairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.