The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.

  • Warrington, Joseph, -1888.
Date:
1839
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Credit: The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quently been the case with those who have been in the hands of officious and self-con- ceited nurses. She must neither lend her faith to the many vulgar errors about women in labour, or those who have been delivered; nor by any means communicate them to the individual of whom she has, or is to have, the charge, lest she should alarm her. Since the general concession, that the duty of superin- tending and aiding a female at the interesting and critical period of parturition, devolves rather upon well-instructed physicians than uneducated midwives, the opinions of a nurse arc not unfrequently demanded by-the ner- vous and timid lady, and ingenuity or super- stition may often be exercised in the absence of true knowledge; the nurse should, there- fore, in all cases, decline any opinion as to the condition of the inquirer, and refer her to the accoucheur, who should be regarded as the only person suitable to explain the con- dition, and direct the conduct of the pregnant or parturient female. The nurse should studiously avoid report- ing to the patient any unpleasant circum- stances, either supposed, or known to havo