Faulkner Hospital School of Nursing - Faulkan Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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WHAT IS A STUDENT NURSE? Student nurses are found everywhere, underneath, on top of, run- ning around, jumping over, or slithering past patient's beds. Doctors yell at them, head nurses criticize them, interns tolerate them, resi- dents overlook them, and patients love them. A student nurse is courage under a cap, a smile in snowy white, strength in a starched skirt, energy that is endless, the best of young womanhood, a modern Florence Nightingale. Just when she is gain- ing prestige and poise, she drops a glass, breaks a syringe or steps on a doctor's foot. A student nurse is like a composite, she eats like a team of hun- gry interns and works like the whole nursing staff put together. She has the speed of a gazelle, the strength of an ox, the quickness of a cat, the endurance of a flagpole sitter, and the abilities of Florence Nightingale, Linda Richards, and Clara Barton rolled into one blue uniform. To the head nurse she has the stability of mush, the fleetness of a snail, the mentality of a mule and is held together by starch, ad- hesive tape and strained nerves. To an alumnae, she never will work hard, carry more trays, make more beds, or scrub on more operations than her predecessors. A student nurse likes days off, boys her own age, the O.R. , af- filiations, certain doctors, pretty clothes, her roommate, mom and dad. She is not much on working 3:30 -12, days off with classes, alarm clocks, getting up for roll call, or eating corned beef every Tuesday. No one else looks forward so much to days off or so little to working 3:30 -12 on week ends. No one else can get so much pleasure from straightening a wrinkled sheet, or wetting a pair of parched lips. No one else can cram into one little head the course of a disease, the bones composing the pelvis, what to do when a patient goes into shock, how to insert a Cantor tube fusually at 3 a.m.j plus the ten top tunes of the hit parade. A student nurse is a wonderful creature, you can criticize her, but you can't discourage her. You can hurt her feelings but you can't make her quit. Might as well admit it, whether you are a head nurse, doctor, alumnae, or a patient, she is your personal representative of the hospital, your living symbol of faith and loving care. W 's i 1 i 1

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