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

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Obstetrics revealed to us the wonder of seeing future student nurses being ushered into this scientific world, (as far as the female births was concerned. Maybe in twenty years we’ll see more male nurses). In the Case Room, the doctor’s phrase was, Never trust a woman!” and their favourite question was Do you want it or should I put it back?”

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Other classmates remained on wards doing the A.M. care, giving medications, and numerous other duties. The password on the medical floor was Nurse, my bowels won’t move,” and Digoxin.” On surgical floors the password was “bleeding.” What was more rewarding than to see a post-operative patient drinking sufficiently so you would not have to call the busy doctor to start an intravenous; that stable blood pressure of 120 70, pulse 72, dressing dry and intact and lastly but one of the most important voided post-op? Only to return in a few days and find the patient up walking or discharged. Prayers A patient

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From here we followed through with maternity and nursery (here we had an insight to miniature nursing). Closely associated with the nursery was the formula room. There was usually no problem as to what to serve. The usual menu was 9 02 . carnation, IV 2 tablespoons of sugar (some fussy doctors may order com syrup), and 32 oz. of water. The big question here was was it born before or after 12 o’clock. Page 76