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

  • Craven, Dacre, Mrs.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    re-entry to the home or lodgings of the nurse. No nurse should be allowed to sit down to any meal in her apron and sleeves. Whatever bonnet is worn should be well fitting and neatly trimmed, and provided with a clean crimped cap-border and washing strings, to be changed once a week or when- ever soiled, and a white washing lining, which should always be changed once a week, even if it does not look soiled. Her cloak should always be clean and well brushed before going on duty in the morningf. pair of scissors with rounded tops, a Equip- pair of dressing forceps, and a square, flat, silk pin-cushion well stored with pins, should be attached to the left string of her apron by leather straps. (Chains are most unsuitable for nursing work, as a nurse should be noise-