CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930 — Page 45

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Counter irritation by poultices, mustard leaves, blisters, cupping, leeches. Aspiration. Southey's tubes, tapping, lumber puncture.

Micturition. Catheterisation. Bladder lavage.

Baths. Sponging. Packs. Hot-air baths.

First aid in emergencies. Haemorrhage. Fits. Faints. Asphyxia. Shock. Burns.

Last Offices.

IV.--Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

Laxatives, anthelmintics, expectorants, emetics, gastric tonics, sedatives, cardiac drugs, antipyretics, diuretics, diaphoretics, hypnotics, narcotics, anaesthetics, nerve, stimulants. Weights and measures. Poisons. Hypodermic injections. Value of the cubic-centimetre, the litre, the gramme.

DIET OF PATIENTS.

Chemical constituents of foods and value of special articles of food, such as milk butter, cheese, eggs, fish meat, vegetables and fruits, farinaceous foods, alcohol, beve- rages, condiments. Proprietary preparations, their value and dangers. The feeding of infants and children. Diets in special cases of disease; in renal disease; in affections of the stomach and heart; in diabetes. Methods of cooking; sick-room cooking; beef- tea, soup, jelly, junket, whey, albumen water, barley water, egg dishes.

V.-Medical Nursing.

DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND ORGANS OF CIRCULATION.

General symptoms of heart disease; features of heart failure.

The pulse-its rate, character, rhythm; oedema, anasarca, effusions; cyanosis; fever. Treatment and nursing care.

DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION.

General symptoms of respiratory disease. Breathing-various types. Cough- character, expectoration, pain. Pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy, tuberculosis. Treat- ment and nursing care.

DISEASES OF ORGANS OF DIGESTION.

General symptoms; appetite, nausea, vomiting, pain, character of vomit, state of bowels, character of stools. Jaundice. Treatment and nursing care.

General symptoms.

ment and nursing care.

DISEASES OF URINARY ORGANS.

Urine. Uraemia. Calculus. Cystitis. Renal disease. Treat-

DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.

General features; loss of power of movement; sensation; bladder; convulsions; coma. Nursing of cases of paralysis, chorea, meningitis, functional nervous disorders. Elementary principles of treatment by massage and electricity.

CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.

Rheumatism and joint affections. Scurvy, rickets. Diabetes mellitus. Treatment and nursing care.

DISEASES OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS.

Thyroid gland; goitre, exophthalmic goitre, myxoedema. Suprarenal glands. Pituitary gland.

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