POINTS IN NURSING FOR NURSES IN PRIVATE PRACTICE WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING RULES FOR FEEDING THE SICK; RECIPES FOR LAME LIBRARY BY EMILY A. M. STONEY GRADUATE OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, LAWRENce, MassachusETTS; ILLUSTRATED WITH 73 ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT AND 9 COLORED AND HALF-TONE PLATES PHILADELPHIA W. B. SAUNDERS 925 WALNUT STREET 1896. W41 388 1896 PREFACE. IN preparing the subject-matter of this volume, whose title-page clearly indicates its design, the author has attempted to explain, in popular language and in the shortest possible form, the entire range of private nursing as distinguished from hospital nursing, and to instruct the nurse how best to meet the various emergencies of medical and surgical cases when distant from medical or surgical aid, or when thrown on her own resources, studiously refraining, however, from advising the nurse to act upon her own responsibility or to assume personal treatment of the patient except under circumstances of great urgency. There is simply placed before the nurse what the different diseases are, their characters and chief points of distinction and the attention required, their possible complications, and the treatment likely to be adopted in a given case by the family physician, so that suitable preparations may be made by the nurse. An especially valuable feature of the work will be found in the directions to the nurse how to improvise everything ordinarily needed in the illness of her patient. In the sick-room the embarrassment of the nurse, through want of proper appliances due to unexpected conditions or to her environments, is frequently extreme; the difficulty may frequently be overcome by the simplest means when one possesses a knowledge of how to apply them. There has also been attempted a logical division of the text, which includes the following sections: 46912 |