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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    a husband out of work, or others really able to be in the home, it is good for them to learn to put the room and fireplace in order before the nurse comes, to see there is hot and cold water ready, and put out basin, towel, soap, etc. They can be thus taught forethought for others, and to feel they are saving the nurse's time to give to another patient. Time given to Individual Cases. The time spent with each case must depend upon what is needed; no rule can be laid down. On an average a man takes thirty minutes, a woman forty-five, including making the bed. The woman's hair takes more time to comb and plait. The round should end between i and 1-30 P.M., and it is well for nurses to have a glass of milk and a biscuit in the middle of the morning. When shops are impossible, a square or two of chocolate meiinier and the biscuit are advisable. It is very injudicious to work on when hungry, especially in close rooms or attending to foul-smelling cases. The hands should be thoroughly cleansed before touching any food, and one rule should be invariable, viz., never to accept milk nor water in a patient's house, however clean the offered cup or glass may seem. Many cases of typhoid, scarlet fever