Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes.

  • Hughes, Amy.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frequently the additional pain of bedsores, if the illness be severe and prolonged ; while the atten- tions of the so-called nurse and friends are painful necessities, to be avoided as much as possible. Men, women and children do live and are living through all this and worse, but at what a cost! Recovery delayed, constitutions weakened, mental worry intensified, heavily handicapped in the struggle back to health, and all due to an igno- rant economy which holds that a fully trained nurse is not necessary for the poor. It is no question of luxury, it is stern necessity. Disease is no respecter of persons, nor do pain and dis- comfort become diminished because the sufferer lives in a cottage instead of a mansion. To entrust the nursing of the poor in sickness to women of little and no experience is no more justifiable than to limit their medical relief to unqualified practitioners. Advice and Co-operation of Medical Men Desirable. Amongst the man}' schemes now afloat for introducing nurses wholesale into every part of the United Kingdom there is one point which seems to have escaped notice. Presumably the object is to lessen suffering by providing persons capable of supplementing the work of the medical men by carrying out orders intelligently, and