Annual report : 1921-22 / Stanford University Hospitals.

  • Stanford University. Hospitals.
Date:
1922
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Credit: Annual report : 1921-22 / Stanford University Hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    strates each detail of bathing, dressing, and feeding the baby. Upon request she also explains how to cut and make garment's. This educa¬ tional feature of prenatal work breaks pleasantly into what has hitherto been a long, tedious wait, and enables the nurse to tell the group of mothers much that the busy physician cannot explain individually. This course is supplemented by instruction in the home. After a lapse of time sufficient for the preparation of the necessary articles for mother and baby, the social service nurse calls at the home to inspect and advise. The mothers await the nurse’s coming, eager to exhibit their new acquisitions. Every maternity patient is urged to visit the clinic to see the phy¬ sician once a month up to the seventh month, and every two weeks thereafter, except in cases of toxemia, where weekly visits are recom¬ mended, and instruction given in diet and care. If any abnormal con¬ dition exists, or if hospital care is advised or desired, arrangements are made for admission to the hospital. This clinic has two wards, one a pay ward at Lane Hospital, and the other a free ward at San Fran¬ cisco, for those unable to pay. We have also a special fund which en¬ ables us to place a limited number of more critical cases in Lane Hospital. Normal cases are delivered at home by the visiting doctors, assisted by social service nurses. Post-partum care is given by the visiting social service nurses. Home care and instruction are continued until mother and baby are well. The mother is then urged to take her infant regularly to the Well-Baby Clinic, where it is weighed and examined. All maternity cases in the Stanford ward of the San Francisco Hospital are referred back to the Lane Clinic for post-partum care and follow-up; the babies are re¬ ferred to the Well-Baby Clinic. Patients with positive Wasserman reports are referred to the Skin Clinic. Follow-up work is continued, and every effort is made to have the patient carry on the treatments so essential to the life and health of the coming baby. Cases of unmarried mothers are referred to the Associated Charities Worker. Roberta Cook, R. N. Margaret Wolford, R. N. Alice Whitten, R. N. Report of Social Hygiene Worker The Skin Clinic, for the treatment of luetic patients, imposes a three-fold task upon the Social Service worker: (1) to educate the patient up to his responsibility; (2) to establish bonds of friendship
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