Category: Professional ethics, oaths, and pledges (ethics). Each language text below is one published, write-once file; the CID is computed over its exact bytes and is what an IFP-21 citation pins.
The original 1893 pledge for nurses, composed by a committee chaired by Lystra Gretter at the Farrand Training School for Nurses, Harper Hospital, Detroit. Published 1893, public domain. Transcription follows the version documented at the source URL; an 1935 revision exists and may be shelved as a later version.
I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practise my profession faithfully. I shall abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and shall not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I shall do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. I shall be loyal to my work and devoted towards the welfare of those committed to my care.