Public Health Nurse Quarterly V7 No1 1915 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Public Health Nurse Quarterly, Vol. 7: April, 1915 When we consider that those conditions must be main tained not for days or weeks, but must be extended into months and probably years we can have some slight realiza tion of the problems which meet the nurse confronted with such a situation. She cannot, as in a case of illness acute in its character and of short duration, confine her attentions largely to the patient alone, but must in its fullest meaning follow the injunction laid down by our patron saint Florence Nightingale, and Nurse the Home. It is, therefore, of prime impdrtance that she establish friendly relations with the family, an achievement not al ways so easy of accomplishment as we might at first suppose. The nurse who is called to care for a case of pneumonia or to look after the needs of the new born infant and its mother comes with something welcome and tangible to offer, and the tuberculosis nurse who is sent to the advanced case requesting bedside care needs no excuse for her pres ence. But when the patient is in the earlier stages of the disease, scarcely yet realizing that he is ill, a strange young woman coming to the home armed with a roll of paper nap kins and a folder explaining the necessity for the observa tion of a somewhat burdensome list of instructions, and adding a greater or less amount of gratuitous advice of her own is not always met with open arms. Unless she finds conditions so bad as to make immediate change imperative it is often wise 'to let the first visit to the family be purely social in its character. Frequently the nurse is made to feel that she is suspected of some ulterior motive in her efforts. Despite all her attempts to ingratiate herself into the poor woman's favor, the foreign born housewife some times regards with much distrust the young American lady who has developed such a sudden interest in her good man, and in dealing with non-english speaking families much depends upon securing a friendly and intelligent interpreter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.