Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses

The author offers concise, experience-based guidance for newly graduated nurses entering private duty, emphasizing bedside manner and professional demeanor. Practical chapters address relations with physicians, patients' families, and household staff, including how to conciliate cooks and negotiate home routines. Detailed hints cover food preparation and serving, care during convalescence and waiting periods, and small recipes and proportions helpful outside a hospital kitchen. Another section provides obstetrical and newborn care advice, with lists for a mother's layette and specific instructions for washing and dressing infants. Throughout, pragmatic advice translates hospital technique into household practice and suggests etiquette and self-care measures to promote competence and adaptability.