Conemaugh Valley Hospital School of Nursing - Pink Cross Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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he la -Lv 7 X! X l Ffh V S .. ig-gy was ' ' 1523 , . , X jug I' . 7'- i' :. .... g J 3 SV' , ,. .,... ..,, 5 z W, K .X 'iff' ., . .. 5 fri J. fd MRS' IEAN F- BEATTY' MISS BARBARA FORSHA, R. N., B. S. R. N., B. S. ' Instructor Psychiatry Insfmclof Psychiatry K if J g ... t. g tttt , Q ggy -1 2-:. ' .r .1:2- 'zzz aa ., A 1 1? 1 ' S F PSYCHIATRY TORRANCE STATE HOSPITAL TORRANCE, PENNSYLVANIA Because of the social appro- brium attached to mental dis- ease, there is a tendency on the part of patients and their families to keep a nervous breakdown a secret, and it is surprising to most of us to learn how many individuals have been patients at one time in mental hospitals. There is a pressing need for more gen- eral knowledge of early symptoms of mental disease, for a recognition of the value of early treatment, and for a more hopeful outlook and open manner of deal- ing With psychiatric conditions. Alexis Carrel sums up progress in this direction: Today it is certain that health is improving. Not only has mortality de- creased but each individual is handsomer, larger and stronger. However, the long- evity of the men proficient in all kinds of sports is not greater than that of their ancestors. We know that the products of modern education need much sleep, good food and regular habits. They do not en- dure the mode of existence in the larger cities, the confinement in offices, and the worries of business. They easily break down. Perhaps the triumphs of hygiene, medicine, and modern education are not so advantageous as We are led to be- lieve. S.. . E a s a

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Jw, ' Md' ron PEDIATRIC DEPARTMENT Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital can boast of a modern and efficient pediatric department. Students, upon entering this clinical service, are taught basic principles of pediatric nursing which include taking care of Well children as Well as those who are sick. Little textbook work is done because understanding of the Work is most satis- factorily presented through visual aids and acjual project Work. Interesting and Worthwhile projects are assigned to the young nurses. These projects often demand Working with and through the parents. Among these were panel discussions and demonstrations on how to interest, divert, entertain, comfort and teach the child in a Wholesome constructive manner. Through the study and experience in Working with children, the nurses have noi only learned to distinguish normal and abnormal growth and development but also realized the great responsibility of hzalth teaching which they also have un- dertaken. ,gfffif T3 I tif? g 1 wifi! Xu f .

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dn Jude TUBERCULOSIS VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA In keeping Pace with Progress in fhe Miss MILLICENT KAY, Miss ALBINA BENNETT development of technics and proce- R.N., Bug., M, A, R,N,, B,S, dures related to the nursing care of Assistant Chief IUSf1'UCf0f tuberculous patients, there has been Nursing Education Tubefculosfs no change in the fundamental purpose of tuberculosis hospital care. The treatment of the person who has tuberculosis is just as im- portant as the treatment of the disease. Affiliation student nurses develop an appreciation that the patients are people with a past, present and future. Their horizons broaden as community agencies become more than Words or initials, and as rehabilitation programs become the total service rendered to the patient. The hospital and the community come into focus and probably for the first time in their lives, the students glimpse the cyclorama of human relationships and activi- ties rather than the isolated seg- ment which has composed their professional World. Indeed, this affiliation at Butler has been a for- ward move-all to the advantage oi our school as a Whole. PQ If ll X, ,Y y . 4 1' 1 I I - 1 t Ig ' 13 fryui . : it .pl ,V . 4. ,. W5 ,W A H ' M X