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General Duties of Nurses.
1. Each Nurse should carry a Chatelaine bearing scissors, forceps and Sonque depressors. 2. The Nurses shall be classified. as follows:-
a. One head Nurse.
7. Two day Nurses
c. Two night Nurses.
d. One Nurse for special duty (either nursing operation cases where her
be required
services
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3. A Nurse at any time observing serior, sympton developing themselves in any patient under her care must immediately report the case
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4. The Nurses. not
account to any 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 dicks and medical comforts are not supplied according to his instuctions
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 Nursed when required
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2. The 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. The shall have personal superintendence of the washing of soiled linen.
4. The Tailor to be under her immediate t supervision and she is expected to see that he
carries out her instructions. All bandages 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 Superinter:dent's Table overy, morning.
Day Nurses,
1. Hours of duty 9 a. m to 9p.m. One to be on duty in Wards No 1. 6, inclusive and the other to be on ducty 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
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