NURSES OLD AND NEW.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1435, 27 October 1896, Page 2

NURSES OLD AND NEW.

“ The difference between the old and new schools of nursing is even more marked than that between the modern system of medicine »ud that in vogue in the days of our grandfathers,” says an old physician. •* Perhaps you will understand this better if I tell you a bit of my experience in the matter. I recently visited a patient who had a trained nurse. On my arrival I inspected the chart, which had been carefullly filled in bj r the nurse, giving me all the information I could desire about the sick woman’s pulse, temperature, respiration, etc., taken at regular and frequent intervals during the night. By jove ! She had put down every time , the woman had breathed ! Ac one." I ruew as much about tbe case as if I had never left the bedside for a moment. After that I went to another house where they had a nurse of the old-fashioned family sort. Here, of course, I had no written details to guide me, md had to resort to cross-questioning the nurse. Her replies were rather hazy and unsatisfactory until 1 asked whether the patient had slept well during the night. “ * Ob, yes, doctor, I think she must have/ jaid the nurse, amiably. She didn’t wake me