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Title: A nurse's handbook of obstetrics
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Cooke, Joseph Brown, 1868- author Gray, Carolyn E. (Carolyn Elizabeth), 1873-1938 Baker, Mary Alberta
Subjects: Obstetrical Nursing
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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nt that they present a very disordered ap-pearance, highly at variance with the picture of immaculateneatness which is always expected of a nurse. Her uniform isbest preserved by wearing special gowns, made for the purpose.The infant is not to be handled by a nurse wearing starched cuffsor stiff uniforms. After the morning work about her patientsthe usual nursing uniform may be again worn. Two thermometers should be taken to each case, one for themothers temperature and the other, a rectal thermometer, forthe infant. There should be temperature charts for both motherand child in addition to the usual blanks for bedside notes.Temperature should always be charted, for its entire course canthen be understood at a glance, while if it is recorded in any otherway its significance is not always readily grasped, and unlessthe notes are studied with great care a single, isolated rise oftemperature may escape the notice of the physician. The infant is to be weighed at birth, and afterwards once
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Fig. 184.—Scales and hammock for weighing infant. THE INFANTS WEIGHT. 395 daily, and as scales are seldom to be had when they are wantedfor this purpose, it is a good plan for the nurse to add to herobstetrics outfit a small scales and hammock, such as is shownin Fig. 184. The best scales are large ones with weights, or theold-fashioned steelyards, for no spring balance is exactlyaccurate; but in the absence of the bulky apparatus, the littlepocket affair shown in the illustration, and to be had of anydealer in surgical supplies, answers very well. The importanceof weighing the infant daily cannot be over-estimated, and it isneedless to add that, as the daily variation in weight is alwaysa matter of ounces or fractions of an ounce, the same scalesshould be used each time and, unless the infant is placed in thescales quite naked, any towels, blankets or diaper should after-ward be weighed separately and their weight deducted from thetotal. The infants weight should be recorded daily

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