Practical nursing : a text-book for nurses / by Anna Caroline Maxwell and Amy Elizabeth Pope.

  • Maxwell, Anna Caroline, 1851-1929
Date:
1914
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Credit: Practical nursing : a text-book for nurses / by Anna Caroline Maxwell and Amy Elizabeth Pope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    CHAPTER III PAGE Ventilation 80 Nature and Composition of the Air, Atmospheric Pressure, Moisture. Impurities in the Outdoor Air and their Causes. Factors which Prevent Accumula- tion of Impurities in the Air. Causes of Air Contami- nation within Doors. Changes Caused in the Air by Respiration. Impurities Due to Perspiration and to Combustion. Results of Air Contamination upon the Health. Reasons for Such Results. Measures Neces- sary to Prevent Air Vitiation. Amount of Air Space Required per Capita. Methods of Ventilation. Physi- cal Properties of Gases upon which Ventilation Depends. Care Necessary to Prevent Air Contami- nation within Doors. CHAPTER IV Care of the Ward, its Furniture and Uten- sils ....... 102 Necessity for Cleanliness. Nature and Action of the Agents Most Frequently Used as Detergents and for the Removal of Stains. Methods Used in Cleaning and Removing Stains from Walls, Floors, Furniture, Brass, Copper, Marble, Porcelain, Iron, and Linen. CHAPTER V Bed-Making; Lifting and Moving Patients . 132 How to Strip and Air a Bed. Important Items to Remember when Making Beds and Moving Patients: Methods of Making a Closed Bed, an Ether Bed, a Fracture Bed, a Bed with a Patient in it. Methods of Changing the Upper Sheet, Pillows, Nightgown, the Under Sheet. A Mattress: Methods of Turning a Mattress, of Moving a Patient from One Bed to An- other, of Lifting a Patient up in Bed, of Preventing a Patient Slipping down in Bed, of Sitting up in Bed, of Getting a Patient up in a Chair.