The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications: A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis CampaignLa Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold)
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The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications: A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign
La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold)
Tuberculosis -- Nursing; Tuberculosis -- Nursing -- United States -- History
The Tuberculosis
Dispensary—Equipment—Medicines—Hours—Consideration for
Patients—Function of the Dispensary—The Physician’s Service—The
Physician’s Qualifications—The Physician and the Patient—Duties
of the Nurse—Tuberculin Classes—The Nurse in Home and
Dispensary—The Nurse as a Community Asset 184
CHAPTER XV
The Nurse in Relation to the Institution—Reports Made to the
Institution—Procuring Patients for it—The Value of the
Sanatorium—Sanatorium Outfit—Return from the Sanatorium—Work for
the Arrested Case—Light Work—Outdoor Work 203
CHAPTER XVI
Hospitals for Advanced Cases—The Careful Consumptive—Chief Duty of
the Nurse—Responsibility of the Institution—Home Care of the
Advanced Case—Exceptions to Institutional Care—Compulsory
Segregation 218
CHAPTER XVII
The Problem of Relief-Giving—The Relief-Giver—Co-operation between
Agent and Nurse—General Rules for Nurses and Agents—Conditions
of Asking for Relief—Wrong Conditions of
Relief-Giving—Incidental Assistance—Withdrawal of Relief—Milk
and Eggs 230
CHAPTER XVIII
Home Occupations of Consumptives—Sewing and Sweatshop
Work—Food—Milk and Cream—Lunch Rooms and Eating-Houses—Laundry
Work—Boarding and Lodging-Houses—Miscellaneous Occupations—The
Consumptive Outside the Home—Cooks—Personal Contact in the
Factory—Supervision Outside the Home 252
CHAPTER XIX
Municipal Control of Tuberculosis—The Danger of “Political”
Control—“Politics” in Co-operating Divisions of the Health
Department—Results in Baltimore—Tuberculosis and Poverty 273
The Tuberculosis Nurse
CHAPTER I
Statement of the Case—Beginning the Work—Reaching the
Patients—Supervision of the Work—Necessity for Experienced Nurses.
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