Rules and regulations for the government of the Westminster Hospital, or Public Infirmary, in James Street, Westminster, near the King's Palace, instituted, 1719.

  • Westminster Hospital
Date:
1827
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Credit: Rules and regulations for the government of the Westminster Hospital, or Public Infirmary, in James Street, Westminster, near the King's Palace, instituted, 1719. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    II. The Day Nurses shall be in attendance from Six o’Clock in the Morning- till Nine o’Clock in the Evening, and the Night Nurses from Nine o’Clock in the Evening until Six in the Morning. III. The Night as well as the Day Nurses shall always be in attendance at the hour of dinner, and they shall not absent themselves during the hours stated for their attendance in the Hospital without written leave IV. The Nurses shall clean all the apartments and passages assigned to each of them respectively between the hours of Five and Seven o’Clock in the Morning, and the Breakfast shall be over before Nine o’Clock, and the Wards in a proper state of order and cleanliness, before half-past ]\ine o'Clock every morning. V. The Nurses shall be very attentive to the state and symptoms of the Patient, in order that they may be able to report them distinctly to the Physicians and Surgeons. The Nurses shall also watch carefully during the Night those Patients who have undergone operations. VI. The Nurses shall punctually obey the orders of the Physicians and Surgeons, and shall see that the Patients take their Medicines as directed, and shall immediately report to the Apo- thecary when they do not; they shall also wash and bring down the Phials and Gallipots to the Apothecary every day.