Health in the home life / by Honnor Morton.

  • Honnor Morten
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: Health in the home life / by Honnor Morton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Doctor’s Visit*—A doctor usually visits severe cases about noon, and there should be some hot water and a clean towel waiting for him. The nurse must stand on the opposite side of the bed to the doctor, ready to answer any question or hand him anything he wants. She must not volunteer long statements about the patient’s condition in his presence. As a rule, it is well to keep a written record or chart of such things as the doctor wishes to know, and to hand him this when he comes into the room. This chart gives the temperature night and morning, the amount of nourishment taken, the number of times the bowels have been opened, the amount of sleep, and any other points to which the doctor has called attention. On page 45 vdll be found particulars about temperature- taking. When the doctor leaves the sick-room, follow him, so that you may receive his orders out of the patient’s hearing. The afternoon is a good time for the nurse to get a walk and a sleep. The patient is generally fairly well then and fairly restful. It is no use for the amateur nurse to try to do without sleep, or only with such dozing as she can get in the patient’s room. She must always try to get a few hours’ sleep in a fresh, cool, quiet room. What to do at Night .—The evening is rather a trying time. The introduction of the lamp or lighting of the gas uses up a certain amount of oxygen in the sick-room, and the family nearly always desire to come and sit with the patient. The room is apt to get hot and stuffy, the patient
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