Eijt J
Katholiek Studie Centrum, Nijmegen.
Gewina. 1993;16(2):80-91.
The traditional view of nineteenth-century nursing in Holland is anything but bright. The abominable conditions in hospitals and suchlike institutions, the incompetence of the lay staff recruited from the lower strata of society are invariably emphasised. Slight improvements are only first noticeable at the end of the nineteenth century, particularly by the efforts of the deaconess' movement and pioneers like Florence Nightingale. This is a one-sided view. In Catholic circles it was already in the first half of the nineteenth century that Dutch women's congregations fell back on the Christian charitable traditions of care for the elderly, the orphaned and the infirm, and of nursing the sick. The way in which women religious realised this was an example and a model for the reorganisation of nursing: the self-denying efforts of 'women of good breeding' cooperating with the doctors made it possible for nineteenth-century hospitals to develop into centres of medical care.
传统上对19世纪荷兰护理行业的看法并不乐观。医院及类似机构恶劣的条件、从社会底层招募的非专业工作人员的无能总是被着重强调。直到19世纪末才有了些许明显的改善，这尤其得益于女执事运动以及像弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔这样的先驱者所做的努力。但这是一种片面的观点。在天主教圈子里，19世纪上半叶荷兰女性宗教团体就已回归到照顾老人、孤儿、体弱者以及护理病人的基督教慈善传统。女性宗教人员践行这一传统的方式为护理行业的重组树立了典范：“有教养的女性”与医生合作，克己奉公，使得19世纪的医院得以发展成为医疗护理中心。
