Chautauqua School of Nursing - Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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I rg, iasciaoson OFNUigsiNca The instruction relativelto Asepsis is particularly complete. The importance of Surgical Cleanliness in obstetrics and surgery, and methods of sterilization are treated in full, and the minute instructions Qaccompanied by exercisesj for the preparation of the room, supplies, patient, and the nurse herself -give the student an absolute guarantee of success in this vital department of her work. The surgical lectures cover the practice of Surgical Nursing and Operative Procedures, so that when the nurse requires this knowledge in practice, she finds, as our students notinfrequently write us, little that is unfamiliar in the operating 'room or even in the various steps of the operation. Anesthesia, Bandaging and other subjects relating to surgery are treated with the most explicit instruction to the student. The latter part of this course embodies the latest and most effective -method of Care of the Surgical Patient After an Operation with especial directions in the treatment of complications. These lectures have been prepared by physicians of extended experience who have for years been engaged in hospital instruc- tion, and efvery nurse who accepts confinement or surgical cases will jind herself thoroughly equipped through these studies. t 39

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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

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:il THE or,-IAU TAUQUA oUR sEcT1oNAL STUDY PLAN Instead of giving the student a series of lectures running h h everal Weeks alldealing with the same subject until the t roug s , y work in that subject is completed, the course is so arranged that the student receives lectures on different subjects each Week tor at some other stated interval as may be arrangedj. 1 L t t ke as an illustration the third section of the course e us ja on General Nursing. QSee page 43.5 It has three general aspects. ' t a THIRD SECTION , The first lecture Cdealing with General Nursingj is a ' complete description of the symptoms of fever with special directions for disinfection and for M d' 1 . .e . e lcgur . e nursing a typical fever case-typhoid. c Sing The next lecture introduces the student to the dif ferential symptoms of the principal fevers, with special directions for the nursing of each kind. The third lecture of the section is the second in the Anglioniyl and study of Anatomy and Physiology, and deals With 57519 ogy the structure and functions of the digestive organs Invalid The last lecture of this section presents ' 'Dietetics F d, and .Invalid Feeding with especial reference to ee- mg feeding in fevers, and numerous recipes. The advantages of this sectional plan are: First, monotony is avoided. Second, the student's interest is constantly stimulated by the change in the nature of the lectures. Third, she gets a view of the whole subject of nursing, from month to month Fourth, the Work of each section is complete as far as it goes thus enabling the student to apply her knowledge in practical work almost as soon as it is gained. 410 's --'- tvs -wwif.. .A,l1i..-J.: Q N