Edmundson Memorial School of Nursing - Bluff Yearbook (Council Bluffs, IA)

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T H E li l. ll F F Departments Diet Kitchen Miss Dappin, Dietician How valuable is the diet in keeping the body in good condition! People do not usually realize this until some part ot' the body f:1ilH to function properly. The diet kitchen work is very important in training. Three nurses work there. They are there for three months. They prepare all the special diets and all the special dishes. Perhaps one would think that the special diets are very unin- teresting. After working with them and learning how to make them np they surely are interesting. The Diabetic diet is very interest- ing. All food is weighed in this diet. So many grams of carbohy- drates, fats und proteins are weighed out tor each meal. This diet soon makes the Diabetic patient, better. The food is all prepared in the main diet kitchen but it is sent out on the trays from the diet kitchen on each floor. The Laundry The Hospital makes its own ice and does all the laundry. There is a special building for this. Many baskets of line11 are carried over' to the laundry every day. It comes back nicely laundered and ironed. All the nurses, uniforms are laundered and ironed. The Hospital has a very good heating system.

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THE BLUFF Surgery Miss Keast-Supervisor The Surgical Department is one of the most moderniy equipped in the middlewest. It is composed of tive operating rooms with 21 scrub room for each. an fmaesthetic room, a sterilizing room and at work room where the dressings are prepared. The doctors' rest room and the dressing room with a shower assure their comfort. The clinic room is especially interesting for many clinics are held here. Many interesting fases are discussed here. Six of the student nurses assist the surgeons with their opera- tions and keep up the supplies, Their duties consist of the care of the instruments, sterile linen, gloves. sterile solutions and keeping the rooms clean. Obstetrical Department Miss Culver-Supervisor The Obstetrical Department is complete in every respect. The new wing of the second floor is occupied by this department. The Delivery Room is furnished with everything the Obstetrician needs and nearby is the emergency room which is also well equipped. A sterilizing room makes the department complete. Not far away is the nursery which is most interesting to any- one. One room is equipped to care for the babes while the other room is for their baskets where they sleep. An Incubator is also in this room for all premature babies. The temperature for this is kept from 80 to 90 degrees usually. ..-3 2-.-