DON’TS FOR NURSES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17567, 18 June 1925, Page 13

DON’TS FOR NURSES.

DOCTOR’S HINTS. LONDON, April 2.1. home "Dour's” for nurse* wore offer- “ l ‘Y Dr George Steel-Perkins in u lecture to nurses at Central Ifal], Westminster. They included : Don’t go near your patient smelling of smoke. Unfortunately this is a necessary “ don't ” to warn you against Don’t dose in an easy chair in a position in which you may snore. Don’t chatter. All women are born chatterers, therefore you start handiiwnen r ° U ar ° m ° re than Don’t say “ dear ” to any female patient over eighteen. They don’t like it. Don’t talk to another nurse in the patient’s room on such topics* ns the latest fashion in lumpers and millinery Don't think you are scrubbing a floor when you are washing a patient. Don’t have a creaking shoe • or worse still, two creaking shoes. ’ Don’t wear high-heeled shoes. It is impossible to walk quietlv in them. Don’t be untidy. Always dress neatly and look ns clean and prettv us you can. this sort of detail helps a patient and makes him happier and Dr Steel-Perki us added that at tint ** it was virtuous to tell a lie.