Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Part 86

(a) Ventilation heat and sun; (b) Character and amount of furniture; (c) Cleanliness and order; (d) Daily routine; (e) General "atmosphere."

2. Demonstrate bed making with patient in bed. Bed must be made in fifteen minutes.

3. (a) Show how to help a patient in the use of a bedpan. (b) Care of utensils, dishes, linen and their disinfection.

4. Bodily care of patient. Know all the following and be able to demonstrate any two points asked for:

(a) Bathing; (b) Rubbing; (c) Changing of body linen; (d) Combing hair; (e) Lifting and changing position; (f) Arranging of supports; (g) Temperature, pulse and respiration; (h) Feeding when helpless.

5. Local applications, hot and cold, (fomentations, compresses etc.) (Demonstrate at least one point).

6. Common household remedies and their use: castor oil, soda, olive oil, epsom salts, aromatic spirits of ammonia.

7. First treatment of some common household emergencies, cramps, earache, headache, cold, chills, choking, nosebleed, and fainting.

8. How to give an enema.

9. Proper food for invalids and serving it. Be able to prepare and serve five of the following.

Two foods must be shown to examiner and three may be certified to by mother or other responsible person.

1. Cereal, as oatmeal, gruel; cereal water, as barley water.

2. Toast, toast water, milk toast, cream toast.

3. Plain alb.u.men, alb.u.minized water, alb.u.minized milk.

4. Eggnog, soft cooked egg, poached egg.

5. Pasteurized milk, junket, custard.

6. Beef, mutton, chicken, clam or oyster broth.

7. Fruit beverage, stewed dried fruit, baked apple.

8. Gelatin jellies, chicken jelly.

9. Tea, coffee, cocoa.

REFERENCES:

"Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick." Red Cross Text by Jane A. Delano, R. N. Revised by Anne H. Strong, R. N., Blakiston, Philadelphia, 1922.

"What to do Before the Doctor Comes," Frieda E. Lippert, Lippincott.

"Home Nurses Handbook of Practical Nursing," C. A. Aikens, Saunders.

"Home Nursing," Louisa C. Lippitt, World Book Co.

[Ill.u.s.tration: HORSEWOMAN

SYMBOL--STIRRUP]

1. Demonstrate saddling and bridling a saddle horse.

2. Demonstrate riding at a walk, trot and gallop.

3. Demonstrate harnessing correctly in single harness.

4. Demonstrate driving in single harness.

5. What are the rules of the road as to turning out?

6. What are the rules for feeding and watering a horse, and how do these vary according to conditions?

7. What implements are used for grooming a horse?

Show how they should be used.

8. Hitch a horse, using the best knot for that purpose.

9. Know princ.i.p.al causes of and how to detect and how to remedy lameness and sore back.

10. Know how to detect and remove a stone from the foot.

11. Know the princ.i.p.al points of a horse, and the different parts of the harness.

REFERENCES:

"Riding and Driving for Women," B. Beach, Scribner.

"Horsemans.h.i.+p," C. C. Fraser.

[Ill.u.s.tration: HOSTESS

SYMBOL--CUP AND SAUCER]

1. Demonstrate receiving, introducing and bidding guests goodbye.

2. Write notes of invitation for a luncheon, dinner party, and write a letter inviting a friend to make a visit.

3. Give an out of door party or picnic planning entertainment, and prepare and serve refreshments, OR

Demonstrate ability to plan for an indoor party, arranging the rooms, a place for wraps, entertainment of guests, serving of refreshments.

4. Set a table and entertain guests for lunch or dinner or afternoon tea and demonstrate the duties of a hostess who has no maid, or one who has a maid, to serve.

5. What are the duties of a hostess when entertaining a house guest for a few days or more?