Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes.

  • Hughes, Amy
Date:
1897
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Credit: Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to render the patient comfortable and ensure a refreshing sleep. The night-dress is unpinned at the shoulders and drawn down, and with assist- ance the woman is easily raised in the draw- sheet to the top of the bed, with her head on one pillow. The top bedclothes are turned over from the other side of the bed, and she is left dry and comfortable. Every article of soiled clothing must be rolled up and securely fastened into a bundle by the nurse, everything washed that has been used, the placenta burned, and the room left perfectly neat and tidy before she goes. It must not be forgotten that the after-care is even more essential than the confinement, and if a midwife has undertaken the case she must carry it out herself. She must herself attend to her patient and to the baby, especially the eyes, visiting twice daily whenever possible, for four or five days, after that daily for nine or ten, and consider herself responsible for every case, however favourable, for three weeks to a month after the confinement. Monthly Nursing. The chief duties of a monthly nurse are strict obedience to the doctor’s orders, and keeping the patient perfectly aseptic and clean. No lying-in case should be touched until the nurse