University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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F RESI-IMEN We enfer lhe door of The nursing profession a liflle un- cerfain buf hopeful lhai' Jrhe years +0 come will make our lifelong dream a realify. 36

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Tl-IE FIQESI-IMAN CLASS OF 1941 Seprember 23 was a big day in our lives. We slarfed our freshman period of lraining in rhe Universily of Michigan School of Nursing. To describe our many conflicfing emo- 'rions would be difficult dreading To bid goodby lo our families and friends, eager yel' anxious To begin our new course: leaving 'rhe sleady rourine of our old life, going info a new environment Whar would 'rhe nexr few monfhs bring? Orienlafion Week was filled noi' only wifh The 'raslc of mak- ing new acquainfances and adiusiing ourselves +0 our new home. buf of being fesred. physically and menrally. from sfem +o slern as if were. When we were declared a healfhy lol' and scholasfically sound, we were plunged inlo our campus rouline. The fundamenial courses we were re- quired fo siudy were very difficull and dilzferenl' from- any Thar we had sludied before. Observing and ofien parfici- paring in dissecring cadavers was 'l'he highlighl' of our analomy course. ln bac'I'y we were formally infroduced 'lo bugs and fheir habirs while chemislry helped us lo cor- relafe lhe why's and wherefore's of our olher sludies. In +he affernoons we had nursing ar'rs. This subiecr laid lhe foundafion for our worlc in fhe hospifal. Here we be- came human guinea pigs. we pracliced bed balhs. sham- poos. muslard plaslers, silz baihs, irrigafions, and various and sundry ofher procedures on one anofher. 38