Abstract
With the ever-extending specialization of modern society, certain social groups take on the character of human commodities. They do not produce, but they conserve values. To these groups, the profession of nursing women belongs. These human commodities are created, in the course of social development, by the need for personal service as between man and man and by the demand that this personal service, in degree of the exigency of human need, shall be of expert quality. Some particular agency of social service is frequently employed for the immediate supply of such expert assistance. In the case of the trained nurse, the hospital has served as her creative agent. Not unnaturally, the agent of creation becomes or attempts to become the maker and the molder of the thing created; and not infrequently it comes to regard the creature it has incubated as its own particular perquisite, and designed specifically for
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