Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her BabyVan Blarcom, Carolyn Conant
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Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby
Van Blarcom, Carolyn Conant
Infants -- Care; Maternity nursing; Pregnancy
The nurse is urged so to conduct her clinic as to assure privacy to each
patient examined, and the same treatment which the patient would receive
if she were the only patient in the office of one of our best
obstetricians.
Nurse is to wear her graduate uniform during clinic and during her
office hours.
=Nurse’s Duties=
=1—Preparation of Clinic Room=
Pads of doctor’s record, return visit to doctor, post-partum
examination; pencil; examining table; side tables; sterilizers; basins;
instruments; supply of clean dry gloves; Department of Health material
for taking Wassermanns, cultures and smears; cotton balls; tampons;
throat sticks; sheets; pillow cases; sounding towel; adequate supply of
clinic drugs; solutions; thermometer, in glass of 50 per cent alcohol;
glass of cotton; to be ready one-half hour before the time set for
clinic.
=2—Preparation of Patients’ Dressing Room=
Screens or curtains arranged to form individual dressing rooms; a
sufficient number of clean clinic gowns; separate chair provided for
each patient to leave clothes on, unless room is provided with racks or
hooks.
=3—Preparation for Urinalysis=
Unless the urinalysis is made so near the toilet that the waste urine
may be thrown directly into the toilet, a covered pail is to be provided
one-fourth full of 1 per cent lysol solution. All waste urine and
washings from the test tubes to be thrown into this pail, and under no
circumstances is waste urine to be thrown into any sink or wash basin,
even though the basin is not used as a wash basin.
Test tubes, sterno, litmus, acetic acid, funnel, filter paper, test tube
holder, vessel for collecting specimen, basin of 1 per cent lysol
solution and cotton balls for patient to cleanse vulva before voiding,
basin for used cotton balls, provision for patient to wash hands, to be
in readiness one-half hour before the time set for clinic.
=4—Preparation of the Patient for Examination=
Each patient to completely undress, except her shoes and stockings, and
to put on clean gown supplied by the clinic. Her shoes to be unfastened
so that the doctor can examine her ankles for edema, her temperature to
be taken and a urinalysis made _before_ the patient is seen by the
doctor.
=5—Assisting Doctor in Examining Room=
Make notes on record pad at the doctor’s dictation, reminding her
tactfully of any omissions made in her dictation. Conduct examination in
the following order: Head, chest, breasts, blood pressure, abdominal,
fetal heart, measurements, ankles, vaginal, Wassermanns or smears when
necessary.
_Note_: Preparation for vaginal examination. Sponge vulva with 1 per
cent lysol solution. Give doctor fresh gloves for each patient.
The nurse is responsible for the technique in the clinic room, not the
doctor.
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Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby — John Shaqi
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