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

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Fourth Floor I Accident beds, quickly! Four cases coming in right away. The rooms ' Be full, they will all have to go into the corridors. An intravenous must be iBirted immediately. Would you take those requisitions to the lab please? Kus is routine on fourth floor. I Here we see male surgical patients seeking aid for every type of ailment Horn craniotomy to amputation of the great toe. Treatments vary as greatly H do the patients and operations. Everything from pencillin to foments must bi carried out. ■ The orderlies play an important role. For if it wasn’t for them, who Mould be General Joe. Who would cut the casts, make the Balkan Frames g; e the enemeta, move the beds, do the heavy lifting, and who would drink He coffee in the kitchen, which is brought over from the cafeteria? Thanks H the orderlies, our duties are made lighter. ■ Every patient, whether in private room or in corridor, whether in Balkan Hrame and sectional mattress or on a soft spring-filled mattress—all get the ■ me care, the same consideration and enjoy their stay in hospital—we hope. I We now have a Stryker bed.

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Operating Room Miss Baker Miss Klein The Operating Room, situated on the west end of the fourth floor of our Hospital, is the setting for an important and interesting part of our training. It consists of a workroom, desk areas, a sterilizing room, the Doctors Room, a small X-Ray Room, and four Major and two Minor Operating Rooms: Here, under the efficient and helpful guidance of our Supervisor, Miss Baker; the Assistant Supervisor, Miss Klein, and the Graduates, we spend three fascinat¬ ing months. Each student starts at the bottom as Junior and works to the top or Senior. Each week the duties vary, starting with the initial training of the cleansing of instruments, enamel, gloves, etc., progressing each week into a new type of work until we have been taught the technique of scrubbing; wearing gown and gloves; waiting on a room during an operation; assisting with minor operations, and later, major operations; the principles of sterilization of all O.R. supplies; how to check gloves; how to prepare all linen and gowns for sterilizing for operations; how to set up rooms for Ops.; the selection and care of instruments for minor cases and how to prepare all O.R. supplies in¬ cluding dressings, linen, solutions, etc. Of the three months, two weeks arc spent on night duty. In this time, the nurses handle emergency cases; make supplies; sterilize supplies and prepare the rooms for the following day. This, then, is the O.R., a busy excitinq unit which supplies a valuable training to our nurses. Do you remember?— 1—Your first week and all the scrub- bies. 2—Your first T A. 3—Classes in draping, and our friend. 4—Lunch at 2.00 p.m. and the imperial that re¬ freshes. 5 -Making dressings on Sun¬ days by the dozens. 6—Saturday: cleaning. 7—Your Sunday on sutures. 8— ALL and we mean all the emer¬ gencies.