Allentown Nurses College - ANC Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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'QQAWICQ change from the former to theilatter saves many an undergraduate from collapse. Change of occupation rests. The catalog lists thirty or more courses that will be presented by the members of the faculty, either in lectures and recitations from textbooks, or both, and lantern demonstrations. The effort to acquire and assimilate the aggregate of all this knowledge will tax your powers of application and attention, bu.t she who studies her lesson for the day will be suprised how easily the subjects are acquired. It is suprisnig to the faculty to note the effects of the theoretical knowledge on the minds of the average pupil, the gradual unfolding of the powers of memory, of judgment, of reason, of expression, of manners. In a word, the mastery of the curriculum is educational in its true sense-the development of the mind. I have compared the curricula of various institutions specializing in women's preparation for vocational work, and ind a large percentage of the courses listed are utilitarian, or practical, or scientific, or a combination of these. The only difference in their educational value I can see is that more timevis devoted to the completion of a course. - I There must be hours for recreation and for pleasure. There must be an infusion of the joys of life and there are fortunately some happy diversions which but continue your culture. Music, reading, literature, dancing, declamations, demonstrations staged in this room, are wonderful helps to relieve the monotony. Athletics, including swimming and horse- back riding, should be included. That swimming pool adjacent to the gymnasium we hope will materialize before long. By these means you develop the body and fortify it to resist infection, or, if infected, there still will be inherent vitality to immunize yourself so that recovery is assured. Even though .the nurses have daily contact with infection, there has been remarkably little sickness among them, and for a number of years only one d-eath, and that during the great epidemic. So that a sound body must be maintained for the expansion of a sound mind, and contrary to former traditions, that the skinny, bespeckled and chicken-breasted student is the intellectual prodigy, while the athletic student fails of graduation, present-day statistics prove just the contrary. I must confess since my connection with the college, I have failed to see the intellect grind -alL round expansion, physical, intellectual and moral, is the desired product. When so many duties must be met punctuality must become the routine habit, and promptly at the specified hour the doctor's order mus.t be carried out. Eating, sleeping, exercise and work must be done by clock work. To be late for a' recitation, should not be an exception to the schedule. It encourages carlessness and detracts the attention and interest of the class. The patient who is discharged from the hospital as cured will be a better friend than when he or she was admitted. Sometimes because of the Page Thirteen

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fic, 04, WW C5 T d b tter work or endeavor to do constructive Work, and thus Ourselves to 0 e ' i ' ' t institution. Each one . th ansion of th1S gfea , C0'0Pera'te Wm? Ellie fain egljdidlen his heart by earnest devotion to your Of YOU Young a les ment day arrives, the Whole class, as at present studies, and When commeI1C6 constituted, must be there. eiiltl aiiliiziliarfszisiiieceiilitiriletzrilfgss Viehdorfer, your principal, can verify, and Eli? various fields of nursing activity have become so broad that each member of your class might easily adopt a different line of nursing. Today the relation of the nurse to the private Patient 15 ,Only 0116 phase of the work. The field has broadened .to such an extent that nursing has become a social and public function. Trained nurses are in the offices of physicians and dentists, in private and hospital duty, and in laboratories as techn1c1ans, fPersonally I prefer them as technicia.ns to all others.D Trained nurses are in the public schools, in public health Work Cnational and interna- tionalj, and inthe Red Cross service. They are also found in hospitals as superintendents, in the service stations and health centers of the large cities, in the Army and Navy, in Welfare work, in schools and colleges, and in industrial plants. Wherever conservation of health and constructive Work is required, there youuwill find a gradua.te nurse. he demand for nurses has become increasingly To meet these many phases of a nurse's work the college curricula have been advanced and standardized to the extent that they are equivalent of a one or two year medical course of former years. The requirements cannot be evaded and the intelligence of .the average candidate Welcomes the advanc-ed demands. The training of the nurse today is intellectual and, to a large degree, must exceed the practical. Some of the positions demand the highest type of an educated nurse, the highest culture and the most refined and charming personality which result from an education. Some Of You have already acquired various degrees of culture and refinement, but you have entered the training school to continue their d9V91fJD1T1e11f- IH th1S 1'-SSIJect, a few have a handicap-but it'-s the purpose of th1S faCU1'CY f0'present the subjects of the curriculum in such a manner that all ma c h - . . Y Ompre end and acquire both th th t l d h t ' most important, the cultural result of the stu e eore lea an , W a IS dy. Manual Workfintellectual Work d d' an iversions might be recognized as three phases of a nurse's training. The Ward is the laborator f chology of ethics, of all the theosrecticifrggal and medical nursing, of psy. . 0 ' . ere lt is all Work+scrubbin the of exhausting. The intellectu lc? day-S W.Ork,iS done' All this iS physically 3 wer S1011 IS given in this room. I believe the P096 Twelve l

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. - b 6 1 3 s . natugebof thi iiilgllassinhlbeogsibinitdnliiepeiiimeven temperg nevertheless, 1tS we us e - . - ' h 'll b come those cases the nurse should soothe and satisfy, so. that t ey W1 y 9 77 friends and boosters N ,, ,, 77 ' boosters or kI10CkS1'S- Your manner to patients makes them . ' . fli ' Whenever I see a nurse in the ward I am remindleld gflifoevlgni . CIGUCY record. I note under Points Observed, W0f'dS hke t e 0 ' ver ' trying to a nurse and it PUNCTUALITY CONSCIENTIOUSNESS INTEREST THOROUGHNESS GENERAL DEPORTMENT RELIABILITY ATTENTION MANNER TO PATIENTS OBEDIENCE MANNER T0 OFFICIALS MEMORY , MANNER TO EQUALS NEATNESS MANNER TO SUBORDINATES ADAPTABILITY ' Believe me or not these are the very qualities that an education is supposed to strengthen. These are the very elements of culture that YOU need for success. If I were a junior nurse I'd score every day, for or against these items. If I did well or was commended, 4- g if exceedingly well, +-l- 5 if late, -3 if very late, : .5 if very kind to my patients, + -1- -1- 3 if the day passed without fuming and fussing and fulminat- ing, I'd give myself a hundred pluses. If the results of your training are what I claim they Should be, then you can cope with the present and future, confident that you possess intel- lectual forces that will conquer. Sooner or later in your training or after graduation, the experience will be bitter and heart-breaking. Are you fortified against slanders, villainous frame-ups, and rankling jealousies of a hard world, or its quips and knocks and shghts? The modern barbarian is the character assassin. Don't be afraid, don't be timid, but step out into your present and fut k ' ' ure wor boldly trusting 111 your own powers. If at any time you Heed Sympfflthy Hind 8 g00d CFY, g0 to your principal, She will understand. Be a l1ttle.b1t selfish, even though the theologiansresent this. Don't be so self-sacrificing and absorbed in your mission that you forget your own advancement. A larger field -may need you. Woman's highest function is to ' ' t - nurse, or to the members f i m1n1S er, whether to the slck, as a 0 a family, as th ' teacher. surely a nurse's sphere of worka 'mo er, or to the Chlld, as a spirit of service. There is no c ' gwes play for the overflowing pohtician shouting at 3 D Vt. fimpailosii between a nurse and a woman . 1 O1 ica gat ering an ' ' ' promiscuous crowd. d Sohcltmg the Votes of a Page Fourteen