Mental nursing; or, Lectures for asylum attendants.

  • Harding, W. (William Harry), 1941-
Date:
1894
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Credit: Mental nursing; or, Lectures for asylum attendants. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    south, with bathroom and lavatory adjacent and a large private garden close at hand. When a patient is very excited and inclined to be violent it will be found convenient to have the doors opening outwards and not into the room. The floors should be of polished or varnished wood or waxed linoleum. They are then easily cleansed and do not roadily become foul by becoming saturated with urine, etc. (krpets are not to be recommended; they are easily soiled and difficult to clean. Eugs can be placed about where they are required, and can be taken out daily and aired. They are some- times dangerous when dealing with a violent patient, as they may slip in a struggle and cause falls. Furniture.—As mentioned before it is in many cases unnecessary and even inadvisable to make any change from the usual homelike character of the rooms occupied. In some cases a few alterations should be made, but in the very acute stage of the worst cases it will be necessary to furnish or rather unfurnish the rooms in accordance with the symptoms. It is to the latter forms of the disease that the follow- ing remarks refer. The removal of hangings, etc., which might interfere with ventilation, is as necessary here as in am' ordinary acute disease. Bedstead.—In very feeble and not too restless cases it will be well to retain them on a bedstead as long as ever possible, as they can then be more easily changed and attended to. If the patient be very restless and excited, or if very feeble and tottery, 10*