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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    PREPARATION FOR DISTRICT NURSING. In most of the training schools, both metro- politan and provincial, an impression exists that the majority of district cases being chronic ones, highly trained nursing is wasted in this work. The error is due to ignorance of what is really required, and will be dispelled in time as more is known of what district nursing involves. Nurses are called upon to undertake exactly the same cases as in hospital work, with the added disadvantages of unfavourable surroundings. Surgical Work—Operations. In London and large provincial towns where hospitals and infirmaries abound, major surgical operations are not frequently attempted in the homes of the poor, though many more are accomplished than might be supposed. But in places where hospital accommodation is limited, or at too great a distance, the nurse must be prepared single-handed to attend operations, etc., for which in hospital three or four nurses are set apart. She must be well acquainted