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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    The nurse should say pleasantly, 'Well, we needn't do your face again, then; but we mustn't let you get bed-sores, you know, so I will just do your back properly, and put you in nursing order.' The shirt removed, the sheets are removed also, as a matter of course. The patient's body is then briskly washed and rubbed dry, spirits rubbed into the back, and the bed thoroughly and well made without removal of patient. Often the only good sleep in the twenty- four hours that a patient gets is after this so- called 'sponging.' I have frequently heard a patient say, ' I feel so comfortable now, I think I shall have a good sleep; but when you came in, nurse, I was that tired and worn- out I didn't want to be touched or moved.' The very essence of district nursing is, that