Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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D SECIZIOECLSDFT NURSING :Z THE LECTURES IN DETAIL GENERAL NURSING THE following outline of the courses, while by no means ex- haustive, gives the prospective student a clear idea of the sub- jects treated, the order of progression, and the sectional arrange- ment. This outline presents more clearly than any description could, the aim, the method, and the practicality of thecourse. The first lecture is in the nature of a general introduction to the course and sets before the student in a practical way the ideals to be striven for and the method by which they are attained. Then the course proceeds to give the student the most careful directions Cand problems based thereonj for the care of the- sick- room and of the patient that our experience in home-study methods has enabled our Faculty and special writers to devise. Subse- quent lectures give instruction in the wide range of duties required of the nurse in the various phases of nursing. This instruction, together with the introductory lectures on,respectively, Invalid Feeding, Anatomy and Physiology, completes the first two sec- tions of the studies in General Nursing. Each ofthe succeeding sections comprises Qaj A Study of Nursing Conditions and Require- ments in the Various Diseases, fbj The Study of Anatomy and Physiology, and fcj A lecture on Dietetics and Invalid Feeding. The last named gives the student a collection of recipes which are invaluable in view of the increasing emphasis that is being placed upon feeding in disease, and of the requirements laid upon the nurse for more knowledge of the preparation of food for the sick. These lectures are in charge of a leading American author- ity on practical dietetics, Alida F. Pattee. A study of The Diseases of Children is introduced in the fifth sectiong and the sixth and last sections include Medical Gymnastics and Massage, with the study of Materia Medica, and elaborate instruction for guidance in Emergencies and First Aid to the Injured. 37

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I-,gp THE CHAUTAEQUA Ili: ru l e 'rom , We RY I- '15E?:iJiiE:s? 550-5' NUDAZE ll c My First Surgical Case The following is an account of an abdominal operation performed in a private house, or rather the story of my share in the operation, which consisted in the preparation of the room and the patient, and the performance of other duties of the nurse on a surgical case. ' The surgeon who asked me to take the case told me it was in the country and that he Wanted me to go at once to pre- pare the patient and get the room ready to do the operation at nine o'clock the next morning. He gave me 'bichlorid tablets for the antiseptic solution and also directions for the hypodermic he wished administered. He told me I would not find many things to Work with but to do the best I could, encouraging me by saying, I know you will get along all right, which seemed to mean to me a part of ourmotto- I will get along all right, I had little time for thinking about it, for the stage left in about an hour, so I hurriedly packed two uniforms and aprons. Then the thought came, What might I need that I could not get at once in the country. I had my nurse's instrument- case with 'hypodermic syringe and needles, and I also had strychnin, morphin, a razor, green SPECIMEN PAGE FROM A HBEDSIDE STORY KREDUCED ONE-HALF, 36 h--..Y-,,,,,....,q,-..---- -.- ---- -1,-uuq..,U.-Y.. I ,,L.,.-3-rg .,. I , 1 M . rviwi, va

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m il THE CHAUTAU'QUA' I p The lectures on anatomy and physiology are the result of years of experience in educational work of this nature, giving the student a comprehensive and thoroughknowledge of the structure and functions of the organs of the body, but not burdening her with a mass of unnecessarily minute details. A great many racticing nurses with limited knowledge of these subjects have P . a moderate degree of success, but the medical profession is a unit . . . D . t be in declaring that the highest degree of proficiency canno attained without a knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Hence we have included these subjects in our course. Our method of presentation of these subjects has been made so attractive that our students soon End this feature one of the most interesting of the course. i - .The method by which the student follows the study of the course, the use of the study-helps, etc., has already been described. OBSTETRICAL AND SURGICAL NURSING A Continuation of the Confrse in General N fwrsfing g Beginning with a treatise upon the Anatomy of the Female Pelvis, the studies elucidate in clearly expressed and concise details the care of the prospective mother during pregnancy, and the preparation for labor. g Succeeding lectures give the most thorough instruction pos- sible in the aid required of the nurse in Normal and Abnormal Delivery, followed by the care of the mother immediately there- after and the Management of Ubstetrical Convalescence. It is to be borne in mind that this course does not aim to make midwives of our students, but to prepare them to assist the physician during labor. v There is possibly no problem which more frequently con f th 1 infant. Our elaborate treatise on Infant Feeding and the Modi fication of Milk is most complete on this vitally essential Subject. We venture to say that a complete mastery of this one lecture alone will more than repay the student for undertaking this course 38 i 'H' 'W ' 'T-. - ..- ,..Q.tQL......c.'.L...- -- fronts the obstetrical nurse than that of artiicial food or e