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

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We were always moving in or out. This time it was M.C.D.H. Miss Rose Bigler in front of Nurses' Residence. Enid Ray and Ruth Krings suning themselves on the porch at M.C.D.l-l. We learn needlework in OT. Amanda Rainis drops a stitch! Miss Lamberty leaving CW Q1 for one of the other cottages. Mrs. Newcomb, our instruc- tor in Communicable Disease Nursing. Careful, Madeline jensen. Don't fall in the brook. Will you ever forget Herman in the Nurses' Residence at l.S.S.P.N.7 Mrs. Dorsey, she ofthe keen eye and little black book to catch our errors in technique. Miss Freeman and Dr. Goodlriencl discuss the whooping cough babies on 3-4. Looking down over the build- ings at Contagious. The outside bridge leading from the hospital to the Administration building of M.C.D.l-l. The end of the day and Jean Robeson sits down to rest in the wicker rocker. Q- ,-4. QA

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Ywqwmzam Nffwale So that's Municipal Contagious Disease Hospital, big rambling buildings past the Criminal Court and the prison with its well kept grounds and watery moat. We entered with so many popular mis- conceptions about contagious disease and left with a newer knowledge and no fear of nursing any kind of disease. lsolation gowns and caps, dressing rooms on each ward, lockers with the doors always openl Graham crackers and milk just at seven. Mrs. Newcomb and her inexhaustible anec- dotes of communicable disease nursing, Mrs. Dorsey and her little black book for all our misdeeds. Dr. l-loyne and Dr. Connor and the retinue of internes and residents making rounds each morning. The whooping cough babies and the oxygen room on 3-4. Diphtheria andthe intubation belll Trying to prevent complications on our Tscarletm cases. The luxury of having your own bathroom and shower Cshared with the girl next doory. Exchanging experiences with the girls from the other two big schools , St. l.ukes and Presbyterian. Cultures, strep plates, isolated for being a diphtheria carrierl All this we enjoyed and thank our school for giving us this experience. Then came l.S.S.l3.N. or the lllinois State School of Psychiatric Nursing. Walking several blocks to meals, being waited on by patient waitresses with their good and their bad days. Long lines of men and women going from the cottages to the dining hall to eat. The treatment wards with insulin, electro-therapy and metrazol. passing the gavage tube and having Dr. Weinberg say it was in , The infirmaries and Miss l.amberty teaching us to make nursing care for large groups of patients very effective. Qld and new hydro with their sheet packs and salt glows and with the need to be alert every second, the thrill of satisfaction when the patient leaves to assume later some useful work in the hospital industries. Admission day at the Diagnostic Center and the Cook County l-lospital Car. Typhoid and small pox vaccine forthe new arrivals. Lecture hall, classes, bulletin board with whole days posted, the library, long hours of reference reading. Notebooks, book reports, case studies, psychoses, OT and needlework projects. Reciting schizophrenia to Miss Wadel Feeling like freshmen again practicing hydrotherapy procedures on one another. Remember the mitten frictionl Learning something new and precious each day, appreciating, as never before, the value of integra- tion of the personality. Upsychon Court' '- many promises to ourselves and to one another of what we shall do to aid the mentally ill. FIRST DAY AT M.C.D.i-I. We scurried to bed just exactly at ten, Turned out the light and set Big Ben. At six o'clock sharp, we awakened, And into our uniforms hastened. Befuddled, we stood in a circle small, Some of us short and some of us tall, But, no matter how we look or seem, We were all surveyed with that look 9- gggsvi 5 so green Temps were all taken in a bit ofa rush, l-lands washed, bib put on '-then a hushf Breakfast doled out on tin plates and a pan, And the children propped up to eat if they can. Quite conscious of our inspiring technique, We quickly began the art to repeat. But, when we return to our own home school, We'Il be glad, in a way, thot two months is the rule. Pl W 1 IA' Ai ,- n - ' ,s fungi! - , if iii? . '- T .,: . ia -. h An A' 1 .

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,rl 'Lai Q, I K. ff f' J '5 V ' A . ' 1 ffjljjl ,,' , Dr. M. I.. Parker finishes a busy schedule in the Operat- ing Room. Dr. Alfred Strauss, just before beginning an operation be- fore the American College of Surgeons, guests of Michael Reese last fall. Dr. Grove, Finished with rounds, enroute to his office. Dr. Taft, starting a busy day. Dr. Boshes graciously lets us take his picture. Dr. Qtto Saphir headed for the Institute. ali? Drt l-lerman Strauss, just de- livered another baby. Dr. Laernrnle, too, enroute to Nelson Morris. Camera Study cf Dr. Sal- inger, he Mnose' its good and so do we. WW fifth riff, mia this if il?