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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    Thoughtfulness Needed. While enforcing cleanliness, it should not be for- gotten that water is often a valuable commodity, both in town and country. When every drop has to be laboriously carried from the basement to the attics, often up five, six, or even seven flights of narrow, dark stairs, or brought from a distant pump or well in all weathers, the nurse will not lightly throw away half a basinful because she used too much lotion or put in too much cold water, as the case may be. Also, soap costs money, and it would not be so frequently left wasting in the water if the nurse realised that fact. These are some of the many details which only experience can teach. How few nurses under- stand at first that spilling water when emptying basins or filling kettles means that it will run between the badly-fitting boards of the floor, and stain the ceiling of the room below unless at once dried up, or that carelessly putting wet basins, medicine bottles, glasses, etc., on a polished table or chest of drawers, will leave permanent marks on what most likely is the best piece of furniture in the home. District nursing furnishes endless examples of the truth that Evil is wrought by want of thought More than by want of heart,