The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign

Object of Work—Districts—Hours on Duty—Number of Daily Visits—The Nurse’s Office—Lunch and the Noon Hour—Bags—Prophylactic Supplies—Cups, Fillers, and Napkins—Disinfectant—Water...

The General Practitioner and the Public Health—Responsibility of the Private Practitioner in Tuberculosis—Impossibility of Fulfilling this Obligation—Failure because of the Natu...

Prevention of Tuberculosis—Sources through which Calls are Received—Entering the Home—Telling the Truth to the Patient—Truth for the Family—Disposal of Sputum—Danger of Expired...

The Tuberculosis Dispensary—Equipment—Medicines—Hours—Consideration for Patients—Function of the Dispensary—The Physician’s Service—The Physician’s Qualifications—The Physician...

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...

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...

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—T...

=Statement of the Case.= Pulmonary tuberculosis is a communicable disease, transmitted from person to person by means of the tubercle bacilli contained in the sputum of infected...

=Training.= One of the first qualifications of the nurse should be proper training. She should be a graduate of a first-class general hospital, which gives a three-years’ course...

=Salary.= A good nurse should command a good salary—she is worth it. There is a tendency to underpay nurses even at the present day, because of the tradition handed down from th...

Object of Work—Districts—Hours on Duty—Number of Daily Visits—The Nurse’s Office—Lunch and the Noon Hour—Bags—Prophylactic Supplies—Cups, Fillers, and Napkins—Disinfectant—Water...

=Records and Reports.= Every association, whether it be private or municipal, supporting one nurse or fifty, should keep careful records concerning its patients, and concerning...

=Finding Patients and Building up the Visiting List.= The first thing for a nurse to do when she begins her work in a new community is to find the patients she is to instruct an...

The General Practitioner and the Public Health—Responsibility of the Private Practitioner in Tuberculosis—Impossibility of Fulfilling this Obligation—Failure because of the Natu...

=The Nurse in Relation to the Physician.= In the foregoing chapter, we have seen that the task of preserving and improving the public health is one which rests, theoretically, o...

=Obtaining a Diagnosis.= As we all know, it is not the business of the nurse to make diagnoses, but it is emphatically her business to select cases which should be diagnosed, an...

Prevention of Tuberculosis—Sources through Which Calls are Received—Entering the Home—Telling the Truth to the Patient—Truth for the Family—Disposal of Sputum—Danger of Expired...

=Inspection of the House.= On her first visit the nurse must inspect every room in the patient’s home, with a view to knowing what possibilities it affords for treatment and iso...

=Care of the Family.= We have already said that the first consideration is the patient’s family, or those individuals who come in contact with him. Therefore, as soon as he hims...

=Disinfection of Houses.= One of the most important of the nurse’s duties is her arrangement for the fumigation and cleaning of premises that have been vacated by a consumptive....

The Tuberculosis Dispensary—Equipment—Medicines—Hours—Consideration of Patients—Function of the Dispensary—The Physician’s Service—The Physician’s Qualifications—The Physician a...

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...

=Hospitals for the Advanced Case.= The crux of the tuberculosis problem lies in the segregation of the advanced case. Until the distributor is removed from his family, and separ...

The Problem of Giving Relief—The Giver of Relief—Co-operation between Agent and Nurse—General Rules for Nurses and Agents—Conditions of Asking for Relief—Wrong Conditions of Rel...

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—...

=Municipal Control.= Tuberculosis is a communicable disease in which the patient himself must be relied upon to protect the community. We depend upon him for whatever protection...