Michael Reese Hospital School of Nursing - Reestar Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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l .Since September, 192-L, the Freshmen Cformerly Prelimmaryj term, covers the first five months of train- ing, the Sophomore term of seven months finishes the first Year? during the second year of her studies, the student nurse is dubbed a Junior, and the third, or Senior year completes the whole course of training. During 1924, the Physical Education bepartment has been developed, under the direction of lXf. iss lforo- V thy Leckenby, classes being held in formal gymnastics and sports such as basket ball, volley ball, etc., and in swimming. Civic .interest is awakened in the nurse's mind through trlps about the city-to the Art Institute, the Field Museum, the industrial plants, and to the parks. During the summer, picnic suppers are put up for the nurses, who with an instructor as chaperon, spend the late afternoon hoursin one of our many beautiful parks, and with 'birthday dinners, and parties and dances each month, the recreational aspect of the Nurses' life is developed. 0 To still further comply with modern requirements, eight-hour duty was adopted in February, 1924. To cover the twenty-four hour period of each day three shifts of nurses are made. Day, Duty now includes the hours from seven o'clock A. M. to seven P. M., with four hours off duty during that period, and two half-days off duty-one during the week and one on Sunday. Evening Duty is from four P. M. to eleven-thirty P. M. each week day, but on Saturday the nurse is on . duty from seven P. M. to one A. M.-a period of six ' hours. 1 Night Duty includes the hours from eleven-thirty P. M. to seven A. M., each night, ex- cepting Saturday, when the nurse is on duty from one A. M. Sunday to seven A. M.-a period of six hours! Oh, shades of all past night nurses! how many of you would have survived the announcement that you were to report for no more than eight hours duty, and for as few as six weeks? A THE RESIDENCE . , The new Nurses' Home has been occupied since June, 1924, and was formally dedicated' on Sunday, January 25th, 1925. On that day, the handsome six-story building at 2816 Ellis Avenue, just across the street from the main hospital and designated The Residence was thrown open from four to six P. M. to a throng of visitors, who expressed great admiration for the beautiful living-room, library, gymnasium and dining-room, which occupy' part of the first Hoor. The living-room is furnished with a victrola and radio, combined, the gift of Mr. Maurice L. Rothschild to the School of Nursing, and a Baby Grand piano donated by the Michael Reese Alumnae Association. Cozy armchairs and lounges, an immense fire-place, reading lamps, writing desks, and a tea-cart, make this panelled room an ideal resting place for tired nurses. The commodious, yet cozy, library, its walls lined with book-shelves, and furnished with reading desks and regular sleepy-hollow arm-chairs, has already acquired a goodly store of instructive and entertaining books. Here a book-lover may truly gaze and invite her soul! The laundry and sewing-room for the use of the nurses, the service rooms, with kitchenettes, on each floor, and the Nurses' sleeping rooms, each equipped with student's lamp, medicine cabinet, commodious clothes closet, and hot and cold running water, also met with approval, especially from the lady visitors. The Swimming Pool in the basement has a diving depth of ten feet, and an exhibition of swimming feats was given by the Boys' Athletic Club of Sinai Temple. The Residence equipment includes a modern kitchen, class and demonstration rooms, linen rooms, lavatories on each floor: lockers and lavatories in the basement for the use of graduate nurses on duty in the hospital: an office on the main Hoor, with ample letter box equipment, telephone switch-board, and call-bells to each room, and a complete elevator service, night and day. Two Michael Reese Graduate Nurses preside over the Home, Miss Sarah Jackson in the day-time, and Miss Harriet Furby at night. The House Warming was well attended, and music and light refreshments ended a very enjoyable afternoon. Page 81 MICHAEL REESE STREET UNIFORM-1895

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UDIETS AND DIETETICSH The wife of the hospital superintendent was house keeper, and prepared all menus, and supervised all meals for the patients and for the hospital personnel. She was assisted by John Nickerman, who was Stewgxcfiery day, John took himself, with his gray horse and Covered Wagon to the Stock Yards, where all meats were purchased, and to the Market for vege- tables, etc. In 1894, the Diet School was opened .under the direction of Mrs. Boland, of the Boston Cooking School, with two pupils for a period of six weeks, each -pupil being responsible for the cooking and serving of one private patient's dinner each day. Her practical train- ing included the building of a coal-fire, the. complete preparation of all vegetables, andthe washing of the dainty Haviland China used for the prlvate trays.. Each nurse was also given a list of ten articles of invalid diet, which she prepared during the morning, to be served as lunches. Two hours daily were given to the Theory of Dietetics. Diebetic and Nephritic diets were indicated by colored cards attached to the foot of the patients' beds, and these diets were specified by the attending Medical Men, and selected, by the nurse, from the general food sent up to the wards. Considerable clinical instruction was given to the nurses by the attending men while making rounds in the wards. ORIGINAL MICHAEL REESE UNIFORM I HOBSTETRICSM ' - The Obstetrical Department was housed in a section of the former Nurses' Home, the waiting patients being kept in the basement rooms, and when in labor, taken up to the Labor Room on the 1st floor. Only free ward patients were admitted in those days, and numbered, at most, fiveg one nurse being on duty for six weeks, day and night, without hours off, the babies occupying one long crib in the room where the nurse slept 'at night. When patients went into labor, certain nurses were called, day or night, to see the case -twenty-five confinement cases being necessary for graduation. In 14896, the nursing course was lengthened from two -to three years, with one month's proba- tion, which was spent in the wards. Later, two month's probation was required of applicants, and later still under Mrs, Minerva Mayfield's superintendence, three months' preliminary work. Under Miss McLeod's regime, a five months' preliminary training was given, before a nurse was capped and allowed to do regular ward work. u thA Special class-room was also assigned for practical demonstrations, and all classes were held in e ay-time. A card-index system for classes was introduced by Miss Burgess, and additional subjects were added to the curriculum, such as laboratory work, public health, district nursing and Social Science. The theory of all these subjects being compulsory, the practical work, excepting that of the laboratory, being elective. The first paid night supervisor was Miss Nina Dale CMrs. C. Friedmanj class of 19053 first full- time instructors were Miss Annie L. Turner, class 1905, and Miss Mary E. Hayes, Class of 1893. The nurses' school uniform, a plain blue gingham, with stiff white collar and cuffs, white apron. and cap, was chosen by the first graduating class. The design was selected by the first superintendent of nurses. The out-door-or street uniform which was then worn by all hospital graduates going to and from their cases, was a long brown cape, and small bonnet tied under the chin with velvet strings, and draped with a brown cashmere veil, reaching to the waist. . This out-door uniform although very appropriate in its day, was later abandoned by all training schools for practical reasons. . f ' PRESENT DA Y CONDITIONS - In accordance with modern thought and usage in regard to women fenforced in some cases by industrial lawsj, the education of nurses is now placed on the same basis as'that of college life, which is merely special training of the o th f t their share in the world's work. y u O our Colm ry' to properly Ht them to do In 1923, the name Michael Ree H 't IT ' ' S h of The Michael Reese Hospital Schcictil ofislsfiixfsinglamlng C OO' for Nurses was changed to that Page 80 I

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