Lectures on nursing / by William Robert Smith.

  • William Edward Smith
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on nursing / by William Robert Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Preparation of Bed probationer, No. 2, to place under and wash the stump with. The water in the basin of No. 1, which should be used first, must be tepid, for the purpose of en- couraging the bleeding, and thus affording the surgeon an opportunity of judging whether any active measures should be adopted for its arrest or not. After this the water in the basin of No. 3 nurse must be used, and this should be always cold. All traces of blood may now bq carefully removed from the patient’s body, and as far as possible from the clothes, and the patient conveyed carefully to bed by the porters who have been in waiting with the stretcher-poles outside the door. When the operation is not a case of amputation, or in hospitals where there are students, No. 3 nurse can be dispensed with. There should be no unnecessary talking when once the patient is upon the table, all directions from the nurse to her probationer being conveyed by a brief word or two, by a look, or sign with the hand. While the patient is in the operating theatre, his bed should be prepared for his reception, according to the nature of the case. When the patient is likely to be confined to bed for some time, a mackintosh and draw-sheet should be placed under the part which has been operated upon; and care should be taken in amputation to raise and support the stump with suitable pillows, which should be covered with some waterproof material, and a piece of gutta-percha tissue.
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