been deluged with examples of when this has happened. One example concerned the
student nurse who was asked to give a patient an airing. She apparently wasn’t quite
sure what to do but guessed that the appropriate interpretation was to move the patient’s
bed on to the verandah and remove the bedclothes. She had in fact been expected to
get an airing so that the patient could sit on it and receive a blanket bath. Another
stude,nt nurse was given te same instruction but with slightly different phraseology-she
was told to go and get an airing. Allegedly she returned three-quarters of an honr later
saying how much she had enjoyed her walk! Pride of place of the many examples we
have been given goes to the case of the student nurse who was expected to give a
patient a warm drink of potassium citrate
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