A guide to district nurses and home nursing / by Mrs Dacre Craven.

  • Craven, Dacre, Mrs.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A guide to district nurses and home nursing / by Mrs Dacre Craven. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    work admits of it, every poor person should be as well and as tenderly nursed as if he were the highest in the land.^ Manage- very essence of nursing in the homes ment and tact, anage- ^Th of the poor is management, tact, and thinking for the patient, so as to do real nursing service at every visit.^^^^;;^^ Applications, poultices, bandaging, and dressings are not nursing, although they may be part of it. Nurses untrained in what properly con- stitutes district nursing, sometimes make the mistake of thinking that if there are no 1 I was inspecting the work of a district nurse in one of the suburbs of London, and a very poor patient dying from cancer, who had in her younger days been a general ser- vant, said to me, ' I never thought I should have such nurs- ing as this ! Poor people can now say, Queens shall be your nursing mothers, for although you may call yourselves paid nurses, I know ladies when I see them, and that you should do such things as this for me makes me feel how much God must care for even a poor lonely old woman.'