Calgary General Hospital - In Cap and Uniform Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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Everything from cleaning to the various treatments is learned here before actually practiced on wards. Across the hall are the instructress’ offices. The student nurses reside in three different blocks: A, B, and D. Here we store our trunks under our beds, cram our closets full and decorate our rooms to look like a welcome place to relax and talk over everything in general with our best friends. Our life : changes when we come in training; we get up at 6:00 a.m. instead of 8:00; we eat in the cafeteria instead of a breakfast nook, and we make friends of people we have never contacted before in our community life. These people become closer and dearer to us than we realize, and when we move over to “D” block to spend our last year in single rooms, we find ourselves habitually congregating in one room or another. Just like sisters we argue over the Juniors’ initiation, plan the Christmas dance, what will we wear, how we will do our hair, look forward to the end of classes and graduation, and spend many a night at home studying and having a night with the girls. And then when we are finished we stand at the door and look back to three years never to be repeated or forgotten for— They say life is a highway and its milestones are the years. And now and then there’s a toll gate where you pay your way with tears. It ' s a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far. But it leads at last to a Golden Town where Golden Houses are.

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NURSES ' RESIDENCE yHE life of a Student Nurse and her acquaintances ii s centered around two main factors; her work the Nurses ' Home. In this edition of our Year Book we wish to take you, our friends and relations, on a tour throughout the hospital and residence and try to give to you a picture of our duties and pleasures during our three years of training. To begin with, we will take you on a short trip through the Nurses’ Home. Our lobby is for the convenience of our friends whom, after asking the Home Matron if they may see Miss-, sit here and wait. Finally after what seems to be hours of wondering if there is any connection between this outer room and the inside, we come along and cheerfully inform them that we were late getting off duty or the lecturer went overtime. To continue, the large sections you see lining the walls are made especially for our mail and our class books. The corridor leading to the right goes to our demonstration room and lecture hall. The walls of the lecture room are decorated with nick-nacks to resemble the normal human ' s innards and the pictures show the disease apart from the normal. One day I told a fellow we had a skeleton in the closet and he laughed heartily. I wonder if he would laugh if he got the chance to open the closet door? You see “Oscar” is getting old now and squeeks considerably when his bones aren’t rattling.

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You may never be rich. In silver and gold, But you may have friends Unnumbered, untold. Just show yourself friendly, In ways manifold, Your smile and your handclasp. Will be better than gold. The optimist fell ten stories. At each window bar He shouted to his friends: “All right so far!”