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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    therefore with the special duties required of her, and so able to render intelligent, helpful service, not only at the actual operation, but in the pre- parations beforehand of room and patient, and the nursing afterwards. Minor surgery in all its branches is constantly being done, and once the doctors realise the nurse is competent, much responsibility devolves upon her. She is en- trusted with dressings of every kind ; her report of the case is often accepted by the busy, over- worked district doctor, and if her knowledge be limited in what she observes sad results may ensue. Chronic Cases. There is no want of good work either amongst the chronic class of patients. For instance, few hospitals receive cancer in its last stages, and the relief that can be afforded to the victims of this dread disease by skilled surgical nursing can only be realised by those who have seen it. These patients need exactly the same experience in handling them and dressing their wounds as the most complicated operation case, and the more skilled the nurse the more devices she knows to give ease and comfort. District surgery calls for complete knowledge of the art of bandaging ; the nurse may have to apply each or all of the many kinds, and in the case