TY - BOOK AU - Fuerst,Elinor V. AU - Lewis,LuVerne Wolff TI - Fundamentals of nursing: the humanities and the sciences in nursing PY - 1959/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Lippincott KW - Nursing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents 1 Nursing and its responsibilities -- 2 Principles serving as guides in the practice of nursing -- 3 Practices of asepsis which help prevent illness -- 4 Preparation of an environment for patient care -- 5 Using the services of a health agency -- 6 Teaching as an integral part of nursing -- 7 Practices concerned with hygiene and healthy living -- 8 Meeting the needs of patients having modified activities in their daily living -- 9 Helping to meet the spiritual and diversional needs of patients -- 10 Meeting the needs of patients having disturbance of elimination from the intestines -- 11 Meeting the needs of patients having disturbances of elimination from the urinary tract -- 12 Heat, cold and counterirritants as comfort and therapeutic agents -- 13 The nurse's responsibilities in administering drugs and gases -- 14 Therapeutic and diagnostic measures with which the nurse usually assists -- 15 Practices used in the care of wounds and the application of dressings -- 16 Administering instillations and irrigations -- 17 Controlling the spread of a communicable disease -- 18 Care of the terminally ill patient and of the body after death ER -