A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . lded in halfand arranged as follows : one sheet is to lie across the bed, cover-ing her lower limbs and extending from the foot-board to apoint midway between the patients knees and hips; the other,covering the rest of her body, also lies crosswise of the bed andoverlaps the first by a few inches (Fig. 55). Before the sheetsare finally adjusted the nurse will remove the vulva pad andcarefully bathe the external genital organs with warm sterilewater and Tincture of green soap, and a fresh piece of absorbentcotton. When the physicia
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . lded in halfand arranged as follows : one sheet is to lie across the bed, cover-ing her lower limbs and extending from the foot-board to apoint midway between the patients knees and hips; the other,covering the rest of her body, also lies crosswise of the bed andoverlaps the first by a few inches (Fig. 55). Before the sheetsare finally adjusted the nurse will remove the vulva pad andcarefully bathe the external genital organs with warm sterilewater and Tincture of green soap, and a fresh piece of absorbentcotton. When the physician has completed the disinfectionof his hands the nurse will squeeze some vaseline or lubri-chondrin from a collapsible tube on his index and middle fingers,taking care that neither the tube nor her own hand comes incontact with the examining fingers. The patient should now bedirected to draw up and widely separate her knees, while thenurse raises the upper of the two sheets so that the physiciancan see the vulva, and holds it in such a position that it cannot.
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