"DON'TS" FOR NURSES.
A DOCTOR'S ADVICE.
HANDICAP OP BORN CHATTERERS.
Dr. George Steele-Perkins, lecturing on "Nursing 'Don'ts' " at the Nursing Exhibition, Central Hall, -Westminster, said :
Dont have one creaking shoe, or, worse still, two creaking shoes. Dont wear high-heeled shoes in an Invalid's room; stumping about Irritates and annoys a patient. Don't be untidy; always dress neatly and look as clean and pretty as yon can: this sort of detail helps a patient and makes him happier and more cheerful. Don't come near your patient smelling of smoke. Don't doze in an easy chair in a position in which you may snore: remember that even any nice young woman may unexpectedly do so. Don't talk to patients about the awful cases y.ou have had. Don't be too high and mighty. Don't chatter: all women are born chatterers, and therefore you start handicapped; but you are more than women you are nurses. ' Don't tell tales to a doctor. Don't say "dear" to any female patient over Don't thibk you are scrubbing * floor when you are washing a patient. < Don't be harsh on a patient's relative*.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1925, Page 29
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