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

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THE NURSE OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS 1887 In addition to caring for your 50 patients, each bedside nurse will follow these regulations: 1. Daily sweep and mop the floors of your ward, dust the patient’s furniture and window sills. 2. Maintain an even temperature in your ward, by bringing in a scuttle of coal for the day’s business. 3. Light is important to observe the patient’s condition. Therefore, each day, fill the kerosene lamps, clean the chimneys, trim the wicks, and wash the windows once a week. 4. The nurse’s notes are important in aiding the physician’s work. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle the nibs to your individual taste. 5. Each nurse on day duty will report every day at 7 a.m. and leave at 7 p.m. except on the Sabbath on which day you will be off from 12 noon to 2 p.m. 6. Graduate nurses in good standing with the director of nurses will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes, or two evening a week if you go to church regularly. 7. Each nurse should lay aside from each pay, a goodly sum of her earnings for her benefits during her declining years, so that she will not be a burden. For example, if you earn $30.00 a month, you should set aside $15.00. 8. Any nurse who smokes, uses liquor in any form, gets her hair done at a beauty shop, or frequents dance halls, will give the director of nurses good reason to suspect her worth , intentions, and integrity. 9. The nurse who performs her labors, serves her patients and doctors faithfully and without fault for a period of five years will be given an increase by the hospital administrator of 5c a day providing there are no hospital debts that are outstanding. I had no shoes and I murmured, ‘til I saw a man who had no feet. How foolish and futile are most of our daily worries and irritations, our envies and hates. Yet, how they clutter up our minds and make us ignore what is in our hearts. We frown at the mud on the streets instead of looking up at the blue of the sky. We so often see cause for cross words or criticism, and so seldom feel prompted to praise and speak kindly. Let us beware of all the beauty that is around us; let us beware of all the love we can share; let us beware of all the foolish little things that can bring smiles so close to tears. I The best helping hand you can find is at the end of your arm”

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REMEMBER WHEN Bergen — allowed one of her patients at C.H. to bite another patient? Skinner — bumped into someone behind the curtain on Second Centre? Dueck — answered that urgent sounding” Case Room buzzer to find Dr. Malkin fran¬ tically trying to disconnect the buzzer? Ohlinger — fully dressed got bathed and was sent down the elevator in the laundry bag? Anderson — tried to find a suitable parking place for her car? Five Seniors — went to the 4-D and landed up at Champs? Doerksen — her first day on penicillin, had penicillin all over herself and her patient’s bed? K. Harder — as a probie mistook a patient’s slippers for urinal covers? Fehr — was forced to run down the hall with only a handtowel after her bath? Sykes — did all those impersonations? Mrs. Ellis — did the hully-gully” with the class of 1964? Beley Bourquin — as probies flashed those diamonds? Somers — had a ball” with that certain fellow in the Canadian Army? Nichol Hutchison — got caught standing in the bathtub, hiding from Miss A” after making all that noise? Loewen — was guest of honor at an ice cold shower after her engagement? E. Harder — sat with Bergen in the back seat on a double date? Arendt — cheerfully tried to give a ii W patient extra Special mouth care? Suitters — played hide and seek with a Ward G. patient in the tunnel at the Selkirk Mental Hospital? Hainsworth Lundstrom — spent that weekend in Minneapolis? Pagan — called Dr. O’Toole, and said: Hello, Dr. O’Toole, This is Second Orange call¬ ing about Mrs. North!” Fetterly — was fortunate enough to have two fellows call for her at the same time and place at Selkirk? Almas and Risby — found rides” to Falcon Lake and back? Reimer — had a doctor examine the wrong patient at C.H.? L. Paetkau — calmly announced that she was just making a winter coat?” Shareski — slipped on some ice on her way to the roller rink and was soon rescued by three fellows? The world is full of willing people — some willing to work and some willing to let them. Confusion say . . . He who laughs last did not understand joke in first place.” Confusion say . .. Old maid — she count on fingers. Young girl — she count on legs.” Early to bed and early to rise and your roommate goes out with one of your guys! Today it’s as dangerous to run into a microbe as into a trolley car, O.R.—The appendix is taken to the lab. with the patient’s name and her doctor attached to the container. High heels were invented by a woman who was kissed on the forehead. Page 93

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HEARD AROUND . . . Who left the mess in the kitchen?” You’re contaminated!” Well! My side of the room is clean! Have you started to study yet? I have to get my case study done. When’s your day off?” Have you seen the orderly around? How many days ’till you finish?” ' 3:30 — 12:00, what do you think?” Darn it, that kitchen’s locked again!” Is that phone STILL busy?” Has your friend got a friend?” Where are you working now?” Is the change list up yet?” Have you got any spare uniforms?” What’s for supper?” “Don’t worry about a thing, Mr. Zimmerman — I’m beginning to catch onto this stuff.” Laugh, and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth Must borrow its mirth It has troubles enough of its own. Rejoice, and men will seek you, Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure Of all your pleasure, But they do not want your woe. Sing, and the hills will answer, Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound To a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Be glad, and your friends are many, Be sad and you lose them all; There are none to decline Your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life’s gall. Page 95