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

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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

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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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ON SECOND THOUGHT Whatever I said in anger, Whatever I shouted in spite, I’m sorry I spoke so quickly, I thought of some worse ones tonight! THE MORNINGS It’s now 7:10 and I should arise, but I believe I’ll close my eyes ' Till 7:15, because I’ll save five minutes if I miss the rush In the bathroom with my toothbrush. I’m sure there isn’t any news, I’ll skip the radio and snooze ' Till 7:18 and then get dressed. I’ll wear yesterday’s blues — they don’t look messed And yesterday’s white seemed clean to me. Not changing clothes will save me three full minutes So I can snore serenely on ’till 7:24 — In fact, No breakfast suits me fine, I’ll get the gate —For now you know, I’m late — I’m late!! YOU CAN’T WIN I worry ’till I’m weary Of this problem grave and deep. Shall I sleep and miss my breakfast, Or shall I rise and lose my sleep? WRITE AND WRONG Things are often said quite biting, about a doctor’s way of writing — The heiroglyphic tracks of hen that burgeon underneath his pen. The hand that no one but his wife or a keen eyed druggist can decipher. But though the doctor’s script draws curses, it’s nothing to the nurses. A penmanship so full of scribbles and blots and blurs and inky dribbles, That records get to be so heinous. You can’t tell sinus” oft from anus.” Page 96