Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing - Carmen Sylva Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Sacred Heart Garmen Sylila., SF M2499 r ,A 24 DELIA NILAND HELEN DUFFY Laboratory Supervisor of Maturity 'fc'- KATHRYN KRAMER Social Service Worker 17

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,frm Sacred I-IeartI Gaxrmelx Syliim Members uf Teaching Staff SACRED HEART HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL DR. F. B. HARDING DR. G. H. HAAS Spencial Senses fNose and Throatj Special Senses CEyeJ JOHN BIRMELIN Vocal Instructor 16

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To and fro life's shuttles go, and with the passing of another year 61-iw Sacred Heart Ci3e.rme1xSylOe.E: 'EI QI Cllllass Bunk lletture We are again confronted with a request to contribute an article for your nurses' class boolc. What shall it be that may be of interest and profit, or possibly both? Many subjects naturally crowd for discussion, all pertinent to nurses, and especially to those about completing their course of training. Yet each have so many by-paths that a choice between them becomes no easy matter. However, gradual elimination narrows our thought to such as seem especially worthy of elaboration. Your standardized course of training is nearly completed, and with a sigh of relief everyone of you look forward to freedom from the restraints imposed during the three years of your training. Each one longs for the time when no longer will be felt the many annoyances thrown about you, together with the inflexible power of a seemingly unnecessary discipline. Perhaps the repetition of these by your superiors from year to year has calloused you to their real significance. Yet yours is not a new experience nor one recognized- only by yourselves. For it is common to all of us to smart under the many restrictions incident to training. This applies to every work trade or profession, and not to your own alone. Before you can hardly realize the same, you will be suddenly pre- cipitated from the collective discipline of the training school, to find yourselves afloat in the sea of your chosen profession. You think you will be free to do as you pleaseg actuated now only in greater or lesser degree by an acquired self-discipline-that so much needed and all- important lesson of life. Has the seed fallen on fertile soil during your training and developed into a self-imposed potential influence? -Many factors and combinations of such will enter into your success or failure, but the degree of self-discipline you have acquired will ever remain not the least of these. Fundamental and guiding principles have been impressed upon you, and collectively you have been led along standardized paths. But now comes the parting of the ways, with each one separately compelled to find her own place in the nursing world. Henceforth you will be an isolated individual nurse, no longer part of a class in the training school. Con- fidence in yourself is essential, yet not the self-satisfied confidence born of false self-assurance. The world very promptly discriminates between the 18