Nurses
Sir, —There are a few young, inexperienced nurses who have yet to learn the art of handling aged patients. The rough, bouncing methods, adopted by only a few, can and do make an elderly patient unco-operative and hard to get on with for the rest of the nursing staff. Usually these rough tactics are adopted when the sister’s back is turned. Perhaps these few might take heed and use a less hurried method when sitting-up a patient, for much of this jerking and tugging on elderly patients does hot make them any easier to handle. We know there are good nurses as there are good patients. There is an excuse for a bad patient, but there is none for a bad nurse. —Yours, etc., NOT FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. August 4, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28347, 5 August 1957, Page 3
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