A manual for midwives and monthly nurses / by Fleetwood Churchill.

  • Fleetwood Churchill
Date:
1872
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Credit: A manual for midwives and monthly nurses / by Fleetwood Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the sick chamber, of the bed, of the patient, and of the infant, should all be marked by order, cleanliness, and neatness. A slatternly nurse is generally something worse. She should have a place for everything, and everything in its place. Her own dress should always be of materials that will allow of being washed, and which will not rustle. 6. As tidiness should be the character of her department, so quietness and gentleness should mark her movements and actions. There should be no hurry, no bustle, no fuss. As everything should have its proper place, so every duty should have its proper time and order, that the patient may neither be flurried nor discom- posed. A quiet tongue is also of great value, so that the patient may not be worried by much talking; nor apprehensive that domestic details will be repeated abroad. 7. When in attendance with a medical man, a scrupulous attention to his directions should be regarded as the nurse's first duty, on no account to be neglected from carelessness, or evaded at the request of the patient or her friends. As she is responsible to him for the faithful execution of his orders, she is so far answerable for the safety and life of the patient. She should carefully note any change which takes place, and if necessary preserve the dis-
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