If air in a house is stagnant, this is certain to follow.
What is sickness?
100
You cannot have the air of the house pure with this under the windows.
What is dung heaps?
100
Don't make your ______ ______ a ventilating shaft for the whole house.
What is sick room?
100
There is no more silly or universal question scarcely asked than this...
What is "Is he better?"
100
It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort. This is why we do this______________.
What is observing the sick?
200
To have this, your house should be constructed so that the outer atmosphere can find its way with ease to every corner of it.
What is pure air?
200
This is always an unhealthy house, an ill-aired house, always a dirty house.
What is a dark house?
200
Servant's rooms are almost invariably this.
What are dens of foul air?
200
The most important practical lesson to teach nurses is...
What are observation skills?
200
And remember every nurse should be one who is to be depended upon, in other words, capable of being a _____________ nurse.
What is confidential?
300
No house with this, that communicates immediately with a sewer, can ever be healthy.
What is an untrapped drain pipe?
300
True or False. One window is enough to air a room.
What is false.
300
This is the best safeguard against infection.
What is wise and humane management?
300
The _______________of patients is seldom allowed for.
What is shyness?
300
In the case of _________, everything must depend upon the accurate observation of the nures or mother.
What is infant?
400
All house drains should begin and end ____________the walls.
What is outside?
400
Nightingale refers to an illnes called scrofula...today, this disease is called what?
What is tuberculosis?
400
True nursing ignores infection, except to _________ __.
What is prevent it.
400
Defect in cooking, defect in choice of diet, defect in choice of hours for taking diet, defect of appetite in patient.
What are the reasons why a patient starves to death?
400
This will increase from the nurse's want of observation?
What are accidents? (pg 118)
500
Without cleanliness, within and without your house, this is comparatively useless.
What is ventilation?
500
But can you not insure that it is done when not done by yourself? Can you insure that it is not undone when your back is turned?
What is being "in charge"
500
Florence refers to an illness called pyaemia, what symptoms are associated with this illness?
What are chills, fever, and formation of abscesses?
(Universally fatal before the introduction of antibiotics)
500
You can do this, if you find that it helps you remember things.