# General Duties of Nurses.
1. Each Nurse should carry a Chatelaine bearing scissors, forceps, and tongue depressors. The Nurses shall be classified as follows:-
a. One Head Nurse.
b. Two day Nurses.
c. Two night Nurses.
d. One Nurse for special duty (either nursing operation cases where her services may be required).
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3. A Nurse at any time, observing serious symptoms developing themselves in any patient under her care, must immediately report the case on a printed form to the Wardmaster on duty.
4. The Nurses are not on any account to administer medicines or diet other than that ordered by the Superintendent, whose instructions must be rigidly carried out.
5. The Nurses must report to the Superintendent if the medicines are not received in time; and if the diets and medical comforts are not supplied according to his instructions.
# Head Nurse.
1. The Head Nurse shall keep in stores provided for that purpose, the whole of the Hospital bedding and clothing in ordinary use and issue the same to the Female Nurses when required.
2. She shall every month submit to the Steward a return showing the amount of clothing on hand and what is required for the ensuing month.
3. She shall have personal superintendence of the washing of soiled linen.
4. The Tailor is to be under her immediate supervision, and she is expected to see that he carries out her instructions. All bandages are to be made by the Tailor and kept in stock; the soiled ones are to be washed and sewn when required.
5. The Superintendent will consult with the Head Nurse every morning in his Office at 9:30 a.m., with reference to the nursing of the Hospital and any other matter concerning the Nurses.
6. She is to keep a Duty Roster and place the same on the Superintendent's Table every morning.
# Day Nurses.
1. Hours of duty: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. One to be on duty in Wards No. 1 to 6 inclusive, and the other to be on duty in Wards 7-11, inclusive.
2. The day Nurse is expected to go round her wards with the Superintendent during his morning visits and shall enter in a book provided for that purpose, instructions given by the Superintendent concerning the treatment of the cases in her wards.
3. The Native Attendants being under the control of the Wardmaster, the Nurse must report to...