A Springfield Nurse
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The book includes an excerpt from a nursing student’s class notes. Most likely the notebook belonged to a Springfield nurse (or nursing student) named Jane Dolores Day, who attended the hospital’s nursing school in 1955 and drove a 1951 Ford.
When a Patient Dies
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Place patient on back, straighten limbs, elevate head and shoulders on a pillow to prevent blood settling in face, remove any cast or dressing that is on patient. Bathe body, pack rectum and vagina with cotton, place pad over rectum and secure with 3-corner diaper, comb hair, close eyes, put false teeth in place, place a strip of cotton under the chin extending up to ears, tie chin up with bandage around head, tie hands and ankles together with bandage.
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