Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-05-24

Care for The Sick.

nursing is Of right high authority
on this subject. Her suggestions
are practical, anc based on an un
equalled experience, and therefore
will be interesting to the large clas;
| who are called on at ono time or an
other to minister about sick beds
We make few extracts. On waking
the patient S he says:
"Never allow a patient to be walked
Intentionally or accidentally, is sint
q,la non Of all good nursing. If be
is aroused out of bis first sleep, it is
curious but quite intelligent fact
that if a patient is walked after few
hours instead of few minutes sleep
he is much more likely to sleep again
Because pain, like irri.abillty OF
brain, perpetuates and intensifes itself
In sleep, you gain more than the
mere respite. Both the probability
Of recurrence and Of the same In
tensity viii be diminished; whereas
both will be terrible increased by
| wantof sleep. This is thereason Why
sleep is SO all important Thisisthe
reason why patient walked in theearly
part of his sleep loses not only bis
sleep, but his power to sleep. A
healthy person who allows bimsel
to sleep during the day will lose his
| sleep at night. But it is exactly the
| reverse With the sick generally: The
more they sleep, the better will they
be able 10 Sleep
As to the movements in the sick
| room:
"a firm, light, quick STEP, a steady
quick hand are the desiderata; not
the slow, lingering, shuffling foot
| the timid, uncertain touch. Slow
ness is not genileress, though it j:
often mists ken for such; quiekness
Iightness nre quite compatable.-
Again, if friends and doctors did
but watch the features sharpening
the eyes growing almost wild, Q
fever patients who arc listening foi
the entrance from the corridor of The
persons whose voices they are hear
| ing there, these would never run tn
risk again of creating such expecta
ton or irritation of mind. Sucl
unnecessary noise has undoubtedly
induced or aggravated dellrinm il
many, cases. have known SUCH
! in one case death ensued.
Nurses do not often properly
apprec ciate the tedium of the sick
bed. and direct their effor is to relieve
"They vary their own objects
their own employments, many times
a days and while nursing some bed
ridden sufferer, they let him lie ther'
staring at a dead wall, without any
change of object to enable him tt
vary his thoughts; and it never oc
ours to them at least to move hi
bed. so that he can look out of til
window. No. the bed is always lef
in the darkest, dullest, remotest par
! Of. the room. / think it yer.
common error among the we'll, t
think that "with little NOR
T self-control," the sick might. if the.
) choose, "dismiss painful thoughts
which "aggravate their diseases" 81
Believe me, almost any sick perso
|. who behaves deceutly will exercls
! more self control every day tha
$ YOU will ever know till you are sic
g yourself. Almost every step tha
crosses his room is-paiDful to hin
almost every thought that crosse
}. his brain is pain ful to biD; and if /
can speak without being savage, an
y look without being unpleasant, he
It exercising self control. Suppose 20
\ have been up all night, and instea
70 of being allowed to have your cup
1t ten, you we're told you ought to ''e.
u erciss self lf-control,' what should ye
le say? Now the nerves of the sie
'e are always in the state that you
'r are. in after you have been up
J night"
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Of sMa, what's for dinner today?