Grace General Hospital - Our Days of Grace Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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The first six months consisted mainly of concentrated studying, classes and practical work .4

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ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE VC har do you want to be when you finish high school?” The answer came to fifty girls on September 6, 1961 as we entered the Grace Hospital School of Nursing to fulfill our dreams of being The Lady with the Lamp.” The title holds true in a sense but more commonly is this Lady seen with needles, medications, bedpans, and drawsheets. Our first feelings were those of joy mingled with anxiety and excitement. Our label was Probationers and how true. To describe our first six months here was our class song: P — is for the problems we’ve created. R — is for the rules we must obey. O — is for the orders we are taking. B — is for the boring times they say. I — is for the intellects that teach us. E — is for those everlasting days. Put them all together and they spell Probie. We wonder if they’re going to let us stay. Page 70

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We were officially accepted into the School of Nursing when we received our caps at the Capping Ceremony. This brought with it the title Junior” which sounded so much better than Probie.” With the completion of Junior Block our class branched out into the different fields of nursing. Remember that first change list! Hoy frightening! The Operating Room was a complete new green world. The key words here were germs and hemostat. The famous yell was Don’t just do something; stand there.” The speed and efficiency of the surgeons made it very difficult for new student nurses — you’d hand them the scalpel and he’s ask for the skin suture. Page 72