Ladies Column.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1699, 26 June 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Ladies Column.

Home Nursing. Among many other excellent suggestions on this subject, a lady contributor to Chamhcn'a Journal urges the importance of a written record being kept by the sick room attendant. A watchful nurse will be quick to notice any change in her patient; but it is quite one thing to notice, and another to give, a faithful report of what has been observed ; and every experienced nurse, at least, should be very particular in jotting down at once all that strikes her attent ion. The simplest way of doing this is to keep a sort of diary of all that happens. Take a piece of writing paper, keep one side for day and one for night, write the date at the top, crease it down the middle, and note on one-half all the patient takes and ■lets, and on the other anything you think demands notice. Tne following is a specimen or the sort of chart suggested : October 4. A.M. I A.51. Tv Cup of tea and

toast J• i. Four ounces of 10. Milk taken with milk difficulty and dislike 11. Medicine 11.1.'i. Poultice to chest and hack 11."0. SI- pt twenty min- 11.30. Turned on right utcs side before going to sleep 1-. Four ounces beef t a I--” 1 -'. Mrs. A. called ; ; T2.-15 —1.30. Excited sr.'yed quarter ! and depressed of an hour , by Mrs. A.’a ! call Arc visitors to be allowed? The reverse side might read thus : October 1. ! ■ r.M. Four ox. milk Jacket poultice '•'•.3o IX.zcd b ilf hoar i). 30 Skin hot and dry, face flushed ; woke excited and restless i '"'•piitoas directed 'pt two hours 11.30 Pecan to perspire, expression tranquil; woke refreshed Fear or, mil!: T >mi such r, chart properly requires some i adt..-, <-.t it is the o:»*y way of insuring aoCO.:;u 1 it v.ili also s.'.vo a good deal of 'i' l , on ti,.. doctor’s part, a glance ii \:v: or-nigh to tdiow him how matters -3"M.

A' ‘ bottom of the first page, it will bs i'o'.i:x d. thf rc D a question, "wliidi, unless so r,••■l.i-.i, would very likely bn forgotten; and '■ i;v never the nurse is in any dilliculty or un- <• r’.vhity, she must never hesitate to ask for oui.tancfc. The aoelor will not expect per-i-nuon from inrxiierienon, and,even if he does no volume er information, will certainly not r.' j- c.' to n.i-tw rmg reasonable questions. Of e orse. tie re i. a great >'t <sl of diilr.n-net in tins as in e’i il in-.--, mid there are no,.tors who t-do for id everybody knows certain it.iogs, of which even the intelligent, who have not hud their attention called to nursing, may be quits ignorant. But oven when this the case, the nurse’s object being her patient's good and not the mppntio? her own • ’,rnity, if she is not pure of her ground, it is bi.r duly to c.'k for instruction.

“ Ilicii ami rare wne !ho gems she wore—but which, you bet, she’ll wear no Moore,”— as the poetical and facetious footpad remarked, sitting down upon a stump and CBUtttiiph'.ting with evident .'-luisf.eotion a pair of ccral earrings, a diamond ring, a gold biacekt and silver shawl-pin, of which he had just relieved a young huiy.