The Training of Attendants in Certified Institutions

General sick nursing knowledge, while a useful adjunct, is of 110 more value in the work of the average attendant on the mentally defective than it is in that of anyone else responsible for the general welfare of a number of people, and if too much time is spent in an endeavour to acquire hospital nursing technique, it must hinder what is the essential part of the treatment, viz., the development of whatever potentialities for mental and physical growth which the patient possesses. But the loss of time involved is not by any means the only serious objection to such a course. As Dr. Turner so clearly states, one of the chiel aims in the educational treatment of these patients is the creation of an atmosphere which will tend to develop self-respect in persons who are suffering from a marked sense of