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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    secured by tapes when on the patient. These -are invaluable for heavy, helpless cases where much movement is undesirable. Poultice and pneumonia jackets are also additions made of flannelette lined with wadding. Poultices can also be secured by a broad flannelette bandage extending from under the axillae to below the ribs, with wide straps cross- ing the shoulders from the back, and secured over the chest by safety pins. The jackets are made of a broad piece of flannelette or flannel hollowed at the neck and under the arms, and wide enough to fold over the chest. Safety pins secure these better than tapes on each shoulder and down the front. After use, the wadding is removed, and the flannelette washed and relined. Medium-sized square water pillows are more generally useful than water beds, and air beds and pillows soon get out of order. A piece of indiarubber tubing fitted on the spout of an ordinary feeding cup is most helpful for patients difficult to feed. This however must be thoroughly cleansed after use by washing in warm water and drawing a strip of clean linen through it, afterwards well rinsing it in boracic lotion and again in cold water. The small brushes with flexible wire handles sold to clean pipe stems are most useful for spouts of feed- ing cups, tubing, etc. A little organisation and method will prevent things being lost, though