Excerpt from Textbook of Surgical Nursing
The authors have endeavored to present as accurately and as simply as possible for the pupil nurse the actual detailed nursing of the various conditions related to things surgical. The various procedures are based on the technic employed in hospitals throughout the country, and therefore the book will be found useful as a text in training schools generally without regard to local conditions. It presupposes a thorough knowledge of the elements of practical nursing. The fundamental treatments, as a rule, have been carefully learned in the probationary periods, but a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of surgery and the necessary surgical nursing are often wanting.
While it is true that all orders are given by the surgeon, and executed with dispatch and accuracy by the nurse, the time has passed when the nurse was a mere automaton. She must know the ante- and post-operative care required for all the patients coming under her supervision. The complete management of an operating room, as well as the conversion of a private home into a suitable place for surgical procedures, should be thoroughly understood, and an operation by name, be it "glossectomy," "thyroidectomy," or "choledochotomy," etc., should immediately summon to mind the condition and the technic involved. The nurse should be well acquainted with the recent surgical developments of the World War, such as the Carrel-Dakin method of wound disinfection, the ambrine treatment for burns, and the suspension treatment for fractures, since her aid is essential for their proper accomplishment.
The chapter dealing with Surgical Dietetics has been based, in the main, on the diet lists used by the Presbyterian Hospital, New York.
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