Red Tape in Nursing Homes
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oiR,'?lour corespondent K. JL. H. inquires why hospital routine, oft;n galling in the extreme, must be " slavishly imitated" by the authorities of nursing homes. I should be glad to know why another great fault of our hospitals is repeated in nursing homes. I refer to the underfeeding of the nursing staff. It is, I believe, a generally accepted fact that few, if any, nurses have sufficient to eat during their period of training; but until recently I imagined that the state of affairs in the average . nursing home was better, if not entirely satisfactoryExperience has undeceived me, and I know of two or three large and expensive institutions where the nurses have barely sufficient food to sustain them, and that food both ill-chosen and unappetising. Surely the fees demanded by high-class nursing homes are sufficient to permit of the nurses
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