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Bed Sores.
Filling of water beds, water and air pillows, hot water bottles.
Charting. Temperature, pulse, respiration.
Common abbreviations in prescriptions.
Measuring of lotions and simple drugs.
Inhalations. Steam kettle. Inhaler. Oxygen apparatus.
Fomentations: surgical and medical.
Ice bag.
Enemas, cleansing and stimulative.
Excreta. Keeping of specimens. Care and sterilizing of catheters.
Bandaging. Splints and extensions.
Requirements for simple ward dressings.
Cleaning and sterilizing of instruments.
Preparing and serving meals.
Feeding helpless patients and children.
PART 2.
Preparation for rectal and cystoscopic examinations.
Artificial feeding.
Test meals.
Lavage, and irrigation of rectum, stomach, throat, nose, ears and eyes,
Weights and measures.
Lotions in ward use.
Administration of drugs; hypodermic injections.
Preparation for intravenous and subcutaneous infusions.
Common instruments, names and uses.
Common technical terms and abbreviations.
Local applications; cold and hot.
Counter irritation by poultices, mustard leaves, blisters, cupping, leeches.
Aspiration, Southey's tubes, tapping, lumbar 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.
Laxatives, anthelmintics, expectorants, emetics, gastric tonics, sedatives, cardiac drugs, antipyretics, diurics, diaphoretics, hypnotics, narcitics, 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, beverages, condiments. Proprietary preparations, their value and dangers. The feeding of infants and children. Diets in special cases of diseases; in renal disease; in affec- tions 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.
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