First-year nursing : a text-book for pupils during their first year of hospital work . of the birth should be re-corded and note made stating the sex of the born, boy (or girl), or Delivered of a boy(or girl). Separate records should be kept for mother and not use ditto marks. Remarks.—Make it a matter of pride to keep theremarks column well filled. Few remarks suggest acareless, lazy, or unobservant nurse, while well-chosenobservations concerning the patients condition show atleast that she was interested in her work. Things 180 FIRST YEAR NURSING which she might consider
First-year nursing : a text-book for pupils during their first year of hospital work . of the birth should be re-corded and note made stating the sex of the born, boy (or girl), or Delivered of a boy(or girl). Separate records should be kept for mother and not use ditto marks. Remarks.—Make it a matter of pride to keep theremarks column well filled. Few remarks suggest acareless, lazy, or unobservant nurse, while well-chosenobservations concerning the patients condition show atleast that she was interested in her work. Things 180 FIRST YEAR NURSING which she might consider minor matters may prove tobe of great importance, and would not be known didshe not observe and record them. Under remarks should be placed all such items asappetite, pain, nausea, chills, perspiration, condition ofskin, condition of tongue, delirium, condition of mind(whether cheerful or depressed), restlessness, etc., andany items for which there is no room in other columns. Temperature Charts.—It is customary to keep tem-perature charts for all acute cases. These are made in. Fig. 40.—Temperature-curve in a typic case of typhoid fever.—(Register.) various forms; they usually include record of pulse andrespiration as well. There may be a separate portionof the sheet for each, or pulse and temperature may beput together and respiration noted in figures at thebottom. These charts are valuable, since they give a graphicpresentation of the pulse and temperature far betterthan it can be done by written figures. Often somefine point in the case is discovered by their means whichwould otherwise1 have been overlooked. Each hospital has its own method of keeping these PRINTING 181 charts. It is best learned by watching another nursework at them. Weight Charts.—These are kept for babies, and aresimilar in appearance to temperature charts; they arekept upon the same principle, the line indicating whetherthe childs weight is increasing or diminishing. A dotand a short line each
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