Charity Hospital School of Nursing - Caps and Capes Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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MTU fOREUJORD For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted: For all you pitied, all you bore, In sad and happy days of yore . . . Take, nurse, the little book you hold! ' We present to you in words and pictures an account of the 1951 school year at Charity. Memory is elusive— we have made an earnest effort to capture it. We hope that you will keep and treasure this book always. The mind is a wonderful machine. It needs but be refreshed and incidents can again be revived in their former clarity. 4 THE STAFF

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Yes, all the world loves a baby, and we at Charity are no exception. Here one sees all kinds of babies—white and colored, plump and thin, healthy and afflicted— but all are loved and cared for by the nurses and doctors to whose care they are entrusted. This tender treatment and Charity ' s wonderful facilities may have a great deal to do with the low death rate in the nurseries and pediatric departments. Charity Hospital is renowned for its premature and pediatric centers. Proof of this fame may be found in the large number of students from other schools of nursing in the country who come to Charity to affiliate in courses related to these departments. Perhaps our interest in babies stemmed also from the fact that nurses are known to make good mothers. This maternal instinct may have been at work when the staff chose as the theme of the 1951 Caps and Capes— BABIES. Our two models, Sandra Jefferson and Paul Gustafson, are not Charity patients by any means, but healthy normal babies who made very good subjects to illustrate our theme. The staff expresses thanks to the parents of both for the opportunity of photo¬ graphing their children in the various poses we have chosen. So as the nurse takes our babies in hand, let us wander with them through the pages of Charity ' s album of memories of 1951.

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CHARITY HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING The Charity Hospital School of Nursing was organized in 1894 by the Hospital Administrators and by the Sisters of Charity, who have been caring for the patients of this institution by governmental authorization since 1834. Since 1937 the School of Nursing has been affiliated with Louisiana State University to offer the degree course. The Charity Hospital School of Nursing is approved by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing Examiners. In the 1949 classification of Schools of Nursing by the National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Service, Charity Hospital School of Nursing ranked among the top 25 per cent of nursing schools in the country. 5