Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes.

  • Hughes, Amy.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of varicose veins, ulcerated legs, etc., firm, regular pressure obtained by a properly adjusted band- age is often half the cure. To the nurse also falls the readjustment of various splints and surgical appliances. She should be able to put on extensions, generally with only the appliances she can invent, and prepare and apply starch and gum bandages when ordered. Medical Work. In medical work the field is wider still ; thorough knowledge of the more pronounced symptoms of diseases of the respiratory organs, cardiac, renal, abdominal, and throat affections, the various forms of fever, etc., is required, so as to carry out intelligently the treatment ordered by the doctor. « District nurses must understand tracheotomy cases, the giving of hot air or vapour baths to patients, in or out of bed ; hot and cold packs, dry cupping, leeching, internally and externally ; nasal and rectal feeding, use of catheter, and washing out the bladder, hypodermic injections, the application and dressing of blisters, the making and application of various kinds of poultices, and fomentations ; in fact, have every detail of nursing at her finger ends when called upon.