Firland Sanatorium School of Nursing - Fir Log Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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if .15.2.L.5:lR,r-S 5 i DIETARY DEPARTMENT HE duties of the Dietary Department at Firland Sanatorium are carried on in one main kitchen and live ward hospital kitchens. 'These are in every respect modern with all facilities for practical and efhcient dispensation of the food. The patients in Hospitals I and H, and Isolation are served by tray from the Ward kitchen which receives its supply from the main kitchen in food carts. Nurses serve the patients individually. Convalescent patients have a separate well- aopointed dining room with cafeteria service at Hospital Ill. The children are building, Josef House. Their dining room is Fittingly deco- with small group tables and high chairs for babies. This room is designed to please the eye and to accommodate the children. The nurse's dining room in the Administration served in their own rated and equipped colorful little dining varying ages of the Building is spacious and attractive. A delightful fireplace lends a cheery warmth to the atmosphere. A wide beamed ceiling, deep windows and ferneries add to the pleasantness of the room. An alcove from this main room furnishes a small dining room which is used on occasion by administration and guests. Still another dining room is devoted to the use of the other employees and enjoys the same service as the nurses. A graduate dietitian supervises the preparation and distribution of all the food including various special diets which are prepared in the main kitchen. Every effort is made to serve delectable, well-balanced meals with as great a variety as the season permits, and to eliminate or avoid as nearly as possible, tiresomeness in the menu. gqfaqv A . .qty Rx 4 X J T TEX K -'ffki ' .Irv-eq., I, A' DIETARY DEPARTMENT -52-

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-f a i n' ::e'i ' ff--'M-vri - - , ' ' 'fit ,,s'vrg,1s:frt-'1iv-- f,g.1r::'f . ,...., -s i. .. .1 A..,, , . N . , A g t 1 happy. That afternoon our cadet was posted to visit the homes of several health grads or post-Sanatoria patients, who have post-graduated in the art of living with tuberculosis for something like five to twelve years previous to this time. Some of these were anxious to learn more about f'what's new in tuberculosisf' so have sent for requests on new literature available, others wished to know when to come for another physical examination, and still others wishes to be reassured of their well-being regarding more strenuous employment, while others wished a visit from the clinic nurse, so as to be reassured of their understanding the methods of daily post-Sanatoria routine. As we drop in to the Tuberculosis Division on a regular clinic day, we find dozens of patients waiting their turn in having their temperatures, pulses, and weights re-checked by the clinic nurses. Some of these were waiting their turn for physical examination, or for a conference with the medical director or with one of the medical staff doctors, or waiting for a chest X-ray, for a sputum report, or for a pneumothorax, or for a history of past illnesses to be written, or perhaps waiting to report a suspicious case in the family, or that of some neighbor who was anxious. In the far corner, we see the clinic director conferring with a per- spective tuberculosis patient who wishes Sanatoria care. Tn days, out of clinic days, the held nurse calls upon the homes of these same patients, checks upon their health conditions in the home, reads their temperature, records their pulse, and advises them as to the disposal of the sputum g advises them as to ,proper ventilation, and proper nutrition, rest, and exercise, or she may prepare them. for Sanatoria care. Though tuberculosis visiting nursing may appear dry and uninteresting to the majority of outsiders, those who know its duties, understand them, and fathom the intrinsic complications arising from a tuberculosis infection, and knowing that when it is discovered and checked in the earliest stages of development, there is a fine opportunity of a good recovery and a freedom from the active disease, providing, of course, that a proper treatment is executed with a knowledge of their own condition, along with a good dose of self-discipline, and guidance by their physician. VVe hnd the supposedly unfortunate become most fortunate once he learns how to live with his condition, thereby enjoying true happiness in living. He has been forced to take time to study himself, along with the finer points of interest in this thing called life: therefore this phase of the required service proves itself one of the most worth-while of all the field work we have experienced. Our four months of visiting nurse or held work is over. As we glance u:pon the paramount factors of interest during our sojourn in this required service toward a Public Health Certificate we feel, and we know, that the energy, the time, the interests, expended have all been worth while, instructively and pro- ductively. As we look upon the vista of years to come we know that humanity will be the better for having served and been served by those who have gone forth with the spirit of true service at heart and with a pure mind to serve. This has been a long journey too much, but that factors of what we ington while taking and a rugged, but I have succeeded call held work the post-graduate interesting one. T hope I have not tired you in pointing out to you some of the salient in affiliation with the University of XN'ash- course at Firland Sanatorium. -K,-XTHERINE BTAGDEL PRUs.xK, R. N. , at '- 31 1 E' 1 - u

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4--uv -- - rv-f ffl- f- wh- :H -b - -I. .. : g ..,. -- t -,' THE ISOLATION DEPARTMENT HE Isolation Department was established at Firland in 1916 after the closing of the old Isolation Hospital in Seattle. This division is under the control of the City Health Department, Quarantine Division, and all admissions are made from the City Quarantine Division direct to Firland Ofhce. These patients remain for a period of four to six weeks, depending upon the severity of the disease, and then released by a City Health Physician assigned to Firlaud Department. Contagious cases are grouped according to the disease and nurses assigned to relative groups. This department has a well-equipped surgery to handle any emergency opera- tion that may occur among these cases. The soiled linen, clothes and mattresses are put in a large sterilizer and dis- infected through a formaldehyde process. The trays and dishes are sterilized after each meal in a large kitchen equipped for this purpose. All the contaminated articles Qnot of usej and waste are burned in the inciiierator. ISOLATION HOSPITAL 153.- T3 .-.fpgywig is