Harriet Camp Lounsbery is the author of a famous nursing education guide Making Good on Private Duty. While techniques are continually evolving, methods are improving, and education in institutions is becoming more comprehensive, the traditional challenges in personal work have always persisted. It all has to be confronted, and the younger nursing siblings still need to be guided, directed, and assisted. This book was intended for these young nurses on private duty. A Treasury tip for Edwardian nurses is included in the narrative: - Unless you know your male patient well, don't try to read it aloud at stock market rates from a newspaper, as it is practically difficult for a woman to read it such a man would comprehend it. The advice includes never going to the sick room with a long face; it is enough for the ill to be unwell; you are there to aid and console them, not to add to their concern.

A comprehensive and practical guide 'for graduate nurses'

"[...]honor of the nurse must come into play; let her forget it if possible, as woe will betide the poor girl if in her next place she unwittingly lets out any of the secrets she has heard in these long talks. Try then to steer clear of the neighbors. If your patient be a cultivated person, and you yourself know anything about books, you have a never-failing topic. All the latest books, the famous books, the most entertaining books, and if you can read aloud and the patient likes to hear you, read to her, and it will do both good-only be sure not to tire her by reading too much at one time. Talk of interesting places you have visited and she will do the same, of pictures you have seen, and last, but not least, you can talk about clothes. Generally the first serious piece of business a convalescent concerns herself about is the purchase and making of some new clothes. She wants something new and fresh, and if you can give her any new ideas on the subject or tell her of any pretty materials you have seen in the shop windows, you[...]".

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