Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing - White Caps Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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TO BEA URSE .. STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSES FOR GEORGIA Written Examinations in Dietetics April 1913 1. Name three foodstuffs rich in albumen. 2. Give a list of fruits to be recommended for a laxative effect. 3. What classes of food should be excluded from the diet of a rheumatic patient, and why? 4. Give your method of making oatmeal gruel. 5. What is the difference in the preparation of beef tea and beef juice? 6. Why is stale bread more easily digested than bread freshly baked? 7. How do you increase the digestibility of starchy food? 8. What are some of the methods of keeping milk from souring in warm weather? BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSES FOR GEORGIA Written Examination in Medical Nursing, Including Contagious Diseases April , 1914 What symptons would you watch for in patient threatened with uremic poisoning? What would be the preventive nursing care both before and after such a condition developed? What methods should a nurse employ with patient having retention of urine? Outline nursing care in scarlet fever. How and when is scarlet fever supposedly communicable? Name four complications that may follow diphtheria. What organs are, or may be, especially involved in pneumonia? Name a recent preventive treatment for typhoid fever. STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSES FOR GEORGIA Written Examination in Materia Medica April .1913 1. Define diuretics, idiosyncrasy, purgative, astringent, disinfectant, deodorant. 2. lal What is meant by the cumulative action of drugs? Ibl In the use of what drugs should one be specially watchful for cumulative symptoms? 3. lal If 10 minims equal 1-30 ofa grain ofthe drug, how many minims would you give for a dose of a 1-150 ofa grain? ibl If only tablets of 1-100 of a grain of nitroglycerine are available, how maya dose of 1-400 of a grain be given? 4. What are the popular or common names for the following: Tincture of opium, camphorated tincture of opium, sodium bicarbonate, oleum ricini, magnesium sulphate, sodium chloride, citric acid? 5. Give amount of boric acid necessary to make a liter of saturated solution. of salt to make 4 pints of normal saline solution: of carbolic acid to make 1 ounce ofa 599 solution: of mercury to make a liter of a 1-1000 solution. 6. Why is atropine sometimes used in connection with morphine when given hypodermatically? 7. lal What is the best antidote for carbolic acid poisoning? tbl What is the effect of opium upon the nervous system and upon the secretions? 8. What are the units of weight and capacity of the apothecary system and of the metric system? BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSES FOR GEORGIA Written Examination in Obstetrics April , 1914 1. What symptoms precede eclampsia? 2. Give a list of articles absolutely necessary for the doctor's use in an obstetrical case. 3. What antiseptic solutions should be prepared for use in the care of the mother and the new born infant? lbl Give strenth of each solution. 4. Define meconium, colostrum, ectopic gestation? 5. By what means does the foetus receive nourishment? 6. What is the usual cause of breast abcess? 7. State method of determining probable date of confinement. 8. What are the dangers to be guarded against in a breech presentation? 71

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