A short manual for monthly nurses / by Charles J. Cullingworth.

Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short manual for monthly nurses / by Charles J. Cullingworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    of these duties himself; at any rate he bemg the responsible person, wiU give in- structions according to the requirements of each nidividual case, which instructions it will be the nurse's simple duty to obey. _ During the passage of the child's head, It facilitates matters if the patient's knees are separated. This is sometimes effected by placing a pillow between them, but the pillow is a,pt to be in the way, and -a better plan is for the nurse to pass her hand beneath the right knee, and keep it well raised during each pain. Sometimes the medical attendant desires the nurse to make pressure upon the womb, during the third stage of labour, to assist it in expelling the after-birth. To do this she should stand behind the patient at the doctor's left hand, and passing the hand under the bedclothes, she should place it on the abdomen, where she wjll feel the round, firm body of the uterus above the pubes. Spreading out her hand over this organ, she should keep u]3 a steady pressure downwards and backwards as long as the attendant desires it.