Hospital management

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...saw practised at the Johns Hopkins Hospital seemed in every way practical. The tray with the empty dishes was passed to each patient, then the food, each patient being served with such articles and in such quantities as he desired. The result was that there was little to be thrown into the garbage pail. In trying to practise economy the pendulum must not be allowed to swing too far. There are certain expenditures which must not be regarded as extravagance. A sick man reduced in vitality is to be fed, and at times the more expensive articles are the cheapest. CHAPTER XI THE DIETITIAN'S PROVINCE AND ITS MANAGEMENT By Elizabeth Hinchman A Woman's work is too often written of from an idealized outlook. She begins it frequently with an ideal which she would be glad to attain, but for which she is unwilling and unable to pay the price--an ideal of success toward which she has no right to dream until she has lived up to it. A woman of forty-five was talking to a senior student of domestic economy as to her future ambitions. The senior said she expected on graduation to have some such positions as the elder woman was then holding--a case of the conceit of twenty-two vs. the experience of forty-five. A number of superintendents and trustees have told me that domestic science graduates--many of them--seem to have the idea that to teach nurses is to be their chief work. They would like to conduct marketing tours with nurses, teach the theory of buying and the theory and practice of cookery; but when they are told they are to be responsible for getting out three meals a day and special diets for 40 or 50 or 100 patients, they either retire in dismay or make a trial and failure of the job. Half of those who apply for such positions are too young, and superintendents are...