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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    work against the national foe. In posts where the pressure of actual nursing work is not too heavy, half an hour may often profitably be spent in practically demonstrating how a savoury meal may be prepared out of the most economical materials. For instance, a light nourishing pud- ding of half a pint of milk, a well-beaten egg and a Httle sugar, put in a clean jam pot, covered by a saucer and placed in a saucepan of water, will be cooked ready for the patient after the pro- cess of washing and bedmaking, and does not take five minutes to prepare. Beef for beef tea, mutton for broth may be cut up and prepared by one of the members of the family as the nurse attends to her patient, and yet superintends the due removal of fat, etc. The cookery learned at school should be encour- aged at home, and the elder girls incited to prepare proper meals while the mother is laid aside. It benefits the household and trains the girls to apply their knowledge practically. ClotJiing. With regard to clothing, the nurse can urge the necessity both for children and adults, but more especially for the former, of flannel or flannelette next the skin. In our variable climate chills are caught imperceptibly, and flannel vests, drawers, etc., minimise the risks.