. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. therooms appointed to her—the sterilizing room, hopperroom, dressing rooms, etc.—the anesthetic nurse doingher own portion and the scrubbed nurse the operatingrooms. A marble pit should be scrubbed with Sapolioand dilute Labarraques solution at the finish of eachdays operating. She scrubs all basins with Sapolioand dilute Labarraques solution, or, if rusted in spots,lets them stand at a slant, with a weak solution of oxalicacid until this disappears. (Oxalic acid must be kept inthe poison closet.) She assists in moving unconsciouspatients aiid p
. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. therooms appointed to her—the sterilizing room, hopperroom, dressing rooms, etc.—the anesthetic nurse doingher own portion and the scrubbed nurse the operatingrooms. A marble pit should be scrubbed with Sapolioand dilute Labarraques solution at the finish of eachdays operating. She scrubs all basins with Sapolioand dilute Labarraques solution, or, if rusted in spots,lets them stand at a slant, with a weak solution of oxalicacid until this disappears. (Oxalic acid must be kept inthe poison closet.) She assists in moving unconsciouspatients aiid puts on binders or bandages, trying to showperfect skill in applying what she was taught in previousclasses. She should be able to do it well before comingto the operating room, so as not to keep a patient on thestretcher until vomiting begins. In handling these36 THE JUNIOR NURSE 37 things on the stretcher long footstools must be nurse cannot get any purchase on her work if she istoo far above or below it. She may be asked to set up. V^ Fig. 1.—Offering a glove case. for cases shortly after entering on this service by clean-ing the tables with carbolic acid (5 per cent.), then selectingand opening the proper table covers, and, after donningher cap, scrubbing, and donning a gown, laying these 38 OPERATING ROOM covers in place. Teaching the junior to set up earlyfacilitates running off a full program. She waits then onthe instrument nurse—opening jars, collecting emptycovers, tying gowns, and keeping everything picked fastening gowns she touches no part of the garmentbut the tape nor the doctors fingers. In removing sterile
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