Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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-V-r , i , W . Y, , , SCHOOL OF NURSING L g. . i . II -g....... y TYPHOID FEVER i How isil Ityphoid fever communicated from the sick to the We - What are the characteristic symptoms of the lst, Qd, 3d and 4th Weeks? I , Study chiefly the paragraph Characteristic Temperature? ' Describe the typhoid eruption. ' To what is internal hemorrhage due? By what sym toms is it indicated? When is the hemorrhage most liable to .occur P r State the most serious complication of typhoid-from what ' caused-time in the course of the disease it usually occurs-symptoms. . ' y Note the details of . Cal care of the room, its temperature, exclusion of flies, etc., Cbj the bed. During what period is the patient kept in bed? How are bed-sores Cal to be avoided, Cbj treated if present? Review this subject in the lecture on The Sick-Room. The nurse is to give enemas, when prescribed, very gently. What is the reason for this precaution? V How are the excreta to be disposed of? Study especially the paragraphs relating to disinfection of the patient, utensils, the nurse 's hands, clothing, etc. How may tympanites be relieved? Study the paragraphs relating to milk as a diet in typhoid fever. Notice what is said concerning the use of water and ice. What must be guarded against concerning feeding in con- Valescence P Give reason. is Who gives directions as to the administration of solid food? What measures may be prescribed to reduce the temperature? Note the treatment in case of internal hemorrhage and a perforation. What about the diet when there are nausea and vomiting? Retention of urine when patient is delirious. or in coma? Read carefully the notes on typhoid nursing. . 0 Notedseven important points to bear in mind in nursing this i lsease. This is not an examination and answers are not to be sent to the school. li SPECINIEN PAGE OF QUESTIONS FROM A STUDY-HELP. 1,6

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Examinations Studyfhelps Guides to Study THE CHAUTAUQUAA, After this study and practice and with the aid of the study- helps the student is prepared for the examination paper, which she receives with the next lecture. This written review she for- wards to the school for criticism and grading. ' b Our study-helps are prepared for each lecture and are unique in correspondence work. For the high efficiency of these helps we are again under obligation to our students for their many practical suggestions. r i The study-helps give at a glance the basic points of the lec- ture and indicate the methods by which the study of each subject and each procedure is to be undertaken. They assist the student to get the gist of every paragraphhand so insure definiteness, care, and accuracy in study. This aid is invaluable to every student and particularly to those who have not recently engaged in desnitee study. Through their aid the student acquires in a very short time, an ability to study, and a conndence which is a source of continued inspiration from lecture to lecture. ' No intelligent student who follows the directions laid down in these study-helps can possibly fail. The study-help compels the student to study and to study in the best way, and insists, as the living teacher with a large class cannot, upon an answer to every question. The following page from one of the study-helps gives some idea of the nature and value of this one feature. . From these questions it is evident that the mental answers must be accurate and definite and must receive the student 's most careful consideration. 14

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Helpful Talks from the Phys1cian's Viewpoint The Examination Questions Bedside Stories from the Diary of a Nurse s in, ix- p T - s - a pri:-IE Gi-IAUTAU-QUA ,Z Under this title is included a series of letters prepared by Dr. Brooks, the Principal of our Faculty. This series is the result of a prominent physicianis experience with nurses and patients, covering a long period of years, and discusses the innumerable problems of the sick-room in a plain, frank, helpful manner. They are not lectures, but personal talks with the student on nursing from the viewpoint of the physician. s This series of letters gives our Principal of Instruction the opportunity to place before the student every improvement in nursing methods, with theories and discoveries as they are described in current medical literature and in new medical works. In this way the student is kept in touch' with theadvances in medical, surgical, and obstetrical nursing. With each lecture the student receives a review paper con- taining examination questions on the preceding lecture. a The student sends her answers to the Faculty with any questions she may desire to ask on any part of the Work. Every review is carefully examined and graded and the standing entered on ,our records, the corrected papers being promptly returned to the student with a certificate 'of examination and percentage. The studentis ,questions are answered in a personal letter, and whenever necessary she is given special directions by means of which she may increase the effectiveness of her study. The Bedside Stories from the Diary of a Nurse are recountals of actual experiences of our graduates in the sick-room. They tell of cases nursed under the most varying conditions, sometimes in the homes of the poor, where conveniences and, in some instances, even the common necessities were not at hand, of cases where needful articles and appliances had to be impro- vised and difficulties overcome by the ingenuity and resource- fulness of the nurse, of emergencies that had to be met during the absence of the physician, and so on. No text-book instruc- tion could be so valuable to the student or practicing nurse as these case histories in story form, amplified by the addition of compgete analyses of the details recorded on the nurse's daily recor . 16