Practical nursing : a text-book for nurses . rigator2 or douche can to which isattached a piece of rubber tubing about three feet inlength, provided with a clamp, and connected, bymeans of a glass connecting tube, to a rectal tube;a douche pan, toilet-paper, a cotton and a rubbersheet, a blanket. Position of the Patient.—Except under con-ditions described on page 364, when the knee-chestposition is used, the patient is placed on her left sidewith her knees drawn up, or, if she cannot be turned,on her back. As can be seen by looking at Fig. 23,the soap solution will have freer entrance into the
Practical nursing : a text-book for nurses . rigator2 or douche can to which isattached a piece of rubber tubing about three feet inlength, provided with a clamp, and connected, bymeans of a glass connecting tube, to a rectal tube;a douche pan, toilet-paper, a cotton and a rubbersheet, a blanket. Position of the Patient.—Except under con-ditions described on page 364, when the knee-chestposition is used, the patient is placed on her left sidewith her knees drawn up, or, if she cannot be turned,on her back. As can be seen by looking at Fig. 23,the soap solution will have freer entrance into the 1 These methods serve three purposes: (1) They prevent wasteand (2) the untidy appearance that small pieces of soap on thewashstand give. (3) Either method is a handy way to havethe soap for this purpose. 2 If a funnel or syringe is used instead of an irrigator, thesolution is put in a pitcher. Enemata and Intestinal Injections 361 intestine if the patient is on her left, than if on herright, side. Flexing the knees relaxes the abdominal. Fig. 23. The stomach and intestine, front view,the great omentum having been removed and the liverturned up and to the right. The dotted line showsthe normal position of the anterior border of the liver. muscles and thus less pressure is made on the intestinewhen it becomes distended with the entering the patient must lie on her back, it is well to put thedouche pan under her before giving the enema, 362 Practical Nursing arranging it as described on page 338, or else to put aKelly pad under her and raise the foot of the bedslightly. This position, also, furthers the entranceof the solution into the intestine and the thing gener-ally desired is to get the solution as far into the intestineas possible without using force. Method of Giving Enema.—Never keep the bed-clothes over a patient while giving a purgative enema1;replace them with a blanket1; then, if the patientcan be turned, draw her to one side of the bed, slipone end of
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