Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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Eur Mlfiauiirauunylunaioirlluunuul Q1 mf Nnraiinim C23 STUDIES IN GENERAL NURSINQ HYPODERMIC MEDICATION Treatment by medicine injected under the skin Qsubcutaneously5 is known as hypodermic medication. This method of ad- ministering remedies is easily understood and carried out. If the needle' is sharp and the injection is given slowly it is almost painless. A To Give a Hypodermic Injection 1. Withdraw the Wire from the needle lfFig. 85. Al- ways keep this wire in the needle when the syringe is not in use. 2. Sterilize the - Syringe.-Draw the barrel full of pure alcohol several times QF ig. 95. ' . 3. Sterilize the Needle.-Place it in a large spoon con- taining a small quantity of water. Hold the spoon over an alcohol lamp, gas-jet, or other small flame until the water has boiled for a minute QFig. 105. Leave the needle in the spoon fand the water5 while you proceed with the next steps. fSee the large spoon in Figure 11.5 4. Sterilize the Water.--Thelnext step is sterilizing the water for the solution. Place the amount required Cusually a small half-teaspoonful5 in the spoon and bring it to a boil over the flame fFig. 115. - ' - 5. Make the Solution.-Drop the hypodermic tablet into this boiled water and if the tablet does not readily dissolve stir the solution with the end of the syringe barrel fwhich has pre- viously been sterilized in alcohol5. Care must be taken that every part of the tablet is dissolved QFig. 125. Use only SPECIMEN PAGE FROM A LECTURE CREDUCEI? oNE-HALF5 A collection of specimen 'pages will gladly be sent upon request. 22 -

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rs.-iii - ' f e .., I. I + , T A ,xy SCHOCL OFNURSINC5 T yi, PREPARATION FOR HOSPITAL TRAINING 0NE of the most valuable applications 'of this course' is as special preparation for hospital training. The number of young women who have thus prepared themselves before enter- ing hospitals has been so large that this may be considered a most important phase of our work. One great hardship in hospital training is the necessity for the student to receive instruction after the hard work of the day. A writer in The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review recently stated that the custom of holding classes and lectures at night defeats its own ends. The pupils are tired and often sleepy and are not in proper condition, either mentally or physically, to receive and retain impressions. Long hours and hard work are not conducive to receptiveness, and every effort should be made to remedy this practice. ' ' An editorial in The American Journal of Nursing states that ,Uwe have never known ag hospital that had nurses enough to properly care for the patients and still have time and strength and enthusiasm left for the strictly theoretical side of the training. I A student recently wrote: ' 'The Chautauqua lectures have proved of more benefit to me than the lectures I received in con- nection with the training school. y I A hospital graduate nurse of seven years' experience, who completed the Chautauqua course, wrote: I soon realized I was learning more theoretically than I had previously learned in my two years' study at the hospital. I Another hospital graduate wrote: I learned and remem- bered much more of what I learned from the Chautauqua course than I did from my whole two years ' study in the training school. A graduate of the Chautauqua school, who entered a large hos- pital 'in' New York City, wrote that after she had been there three days' she was placed in charge of a ward, She stated: They said I was able to do it, if you know anything of what a proba- tioner's life usually is, you will see what the course did for me. ' ' m 21

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-. - -... A , sci-1o.OL or ,NURSING g EDUCATION THROUGH CORRE- SPONDENCE ' WE do not claim that our instruction can ever supersede the Work- of the hospital training school, or that our students are at once- able to enter the profession on equal footing with the nurse of hospital training, who has spent three years in prepara- tion. But, for the great majority of Women who have the require- ments to make successful nurses, it is not a question Whether three years hospital training are better than our correspondence course, but Whether a Woman of average intelligence Who can- not get or does not desire hospital training can yet prepare herself adequately for a life-Work by a correspondence course especially designed to meet the theoretical and practical demands of private nursing. i r According to the latest census statistics, nine' out of every ten nurses are not hospital trainedg and if The Chautauqua School of Nursing did no more than to bring to this great number f+-over 100,000-the latest results of modern medical, surgical, and nursing research, it would have fulfilled its function and justified its right to be. . t But' our home-study method has done moreg it has given thousands of ambitious Women who desired to become nurses an equipment and training of the very highest order which they could not have obtained in any other Way. -f By our correspondence plan a great many students begin to have some income after a few months of study, and by the time they graduate have generally established a reliable practice. Then, in the next year or two, because of the special preparation they have received for private nursing, they are thoroughly established in their community. The Chautauqua School of Nursing correspondence method brings the essential elements of hospital training to the pupil, and there is an advantage in this method not to be .overlooked --each pupil is in a class by herself. She may study her lesson for as long or as short a time as she may Wish. She can come up for examination on each ,lesson whenever she pleases. There is 23 - A Plain Statement