Nursing in diseases of the throat, nose, and ear / by Macleod Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, Macleod, 1867-1951.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Nursing in diseases of the throat, nose, and ear / by Macleod Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    INTRODUCTION. In the present day, when our knowledge of medicine and surgery has so increased as to render specialism a necessity, and each system in the body has a literature of its own, the nurse must keep pace with the surgeon if the patient is to be adequately treated, and some knowledge of each speciality should therefore be included in her training if she wishes to be in a position to undertake any case at a moment’s notice. If it be an eye operation, she should know something of ophthalmic nursing ; if it be a mastoid case, she should be acquainted with the methods of the otologist; and when a nurse has to look after the instruments needed for an operation, she will find herself embarrassed if she has no knowledge of those particularly required for the manipulations of the specialist. Just as no man can become a good specialist unless he has acquired a sound knowledge of general medicine and surgery, so is it impossible for the nurse to make herself efficient in the care of special cases unless she has been, in the first instance, well trained in the general principles of nursing. The management of mental cases, the care of fevers, of