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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    VI. MATERNITY NURSING. It is assumed in the preceding pages that district nurses will as part of their training become quali- fied in maternity nursing, so as to enable them, under specified conditions, to attend on mothers and infants after the confinement, and in country districts to attend the confinement itself. It is, however, found by experience that in many country districts, owing to scarcity of population, want of pecuniary support, or both, it is not practicable to provide nurses trained in accordance with the regulations already men- tioned. It is further found that in country districts the need is frequently greater for trained midwives and trained maternity nurses than for nurses for the sick, and the former cost less. The difficulties in the way of employing the same nurse for both maternity and sick nursing are considerable, even where she is fully trained, and is acting under the direction of the doctors, and these difficulties become greater when, as happens in many places, the midwife is em- ployed to nurse sick patients, although she has