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

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Diet Kitchen And last, but not least, our tour brings us to the fifth floor, the very top of the building, where one of our essential industries is carried out. Here, above the aches and pains, our food is prepared and though at times we hate to admit we all eat or live or should we say live to eat? This department is divided into two sections, the main kitchen where skilled cooks prepare the food that makes up the full light and soft diets and the diet kitchen in which the nurses concoct the contents of the unusual diets. The junior nurse spends most of her time and energy behind a large stack of pots and pans after having been educated in the technique of cooking por¬ ridge without burning it, and making chocolate syrup without boiling it over. In close opposition we see another nurse preparing all the oddities of special diets. Her job does not stop when she goes off duty, for then she must take the menu and sort out what the cardiac nephritic and sippy diets, etc. are allowed. For these patients she substitutes the various dishes, to which they are restricted for the items they are not allowed on the general menu. When you have been in the diet kitchen a set length of time, you work on diabetic diets. These girls sit and weigh the different foods they have select¬ ed for diabetic patients. They then store these foods in the refrigerator on large trays being very careful not to slip and spill the contents en route to cold storage. After spending the allotted time in these different sections, the last week in the diet kitchen is very varied because the senior nurse spends this week filling in the different stations as each student has her day off. After a train¬ ing of this kind he who says a nurse, is a poor cook may be right.

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ISOLATION AT ISOLATION I’ll never forget my days over here, For the days all seemed at least a year. We had two at least and twelve at the most And scarlet fever was all that we had to boast. It seems that our patients just had the knack To catch chicken-pox, or measles when ready to pack, They were only to stay for their twenty-one days. But on the nineteenth their spots were like a maze. With milk on the hour and water galore, There was always a bedpan coming in at the door. The pills, of which there were only a few, Were really so tasteless the wee ones could chew. The food over here was abundant and more. In fact, eating almost became a big bore. Miss Campbell entertained us with style galore, So here’s thanks for our tr aining expressed once more. —-N. Gilchrist. Fifty-