Hahnemann Hospital School of Nursing - Hahnoscope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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' Round about this time we were a little suspicious of what was to tome next on our schedule, and that was the dreaded and feared Operating Room. How we ever lived through that first day is beyond me. Oh, my aching back!! But that fear soon wore off, and after four or five weeks we began to feel at home, and were actually able to find the white table by the green shelves behind the gray sink in back of the amphitheater with the guidance of Miss Hervey and Miss Young. After nine weeks of O.R., we were prepared for Obstetrics. Instructed by Miss Deakyne and Miss Davies, we devoted our time to momma and her off-spring. Now we were ready for our black bands, which were awarded for our two years good conduct. Being Seniors, we were granted more pri- vileges, and among them Affiliations. We were given our choice of either three months at Friends Mental Hospital or two months at the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases. Which would it be, dimentia prae- cox or scarlet fever? Both hospitals offer beautiful surroundings and a peaceful environment. Those students who affiliated at Muni told stories of their mad excursions up the brick- streets of Philadelphia in the ambulances, and those long journeys up the second floor ramp- way to the wards; while those who affiliated at Friends boast of their ability to handle an irrational patient and their expertness in giv- ing a cold pack under the most difficult cir- cumstances. (Yes, nurse, they ' ve got me here because they think I ' m crazy, but you and I are the only two that know I ' m not. Hm- m-m-m-m? -?)

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NO SMOI 1 Whee-e-e . . . White shoes and stockings here we come. We ' ve successfully completed one year of training and now we ' re JUNIORS. But that didn ' t stop our travels through the hospital; it merely extended them. North- ward bound to Orthopedics, where I finally had an opportunity to autograph a cast, with Miss Teller and Mrs. Heck there to super- vise me, and then downstairs to the seventh floor to learn all about Gynecology from Mrs. Leman.

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Alter Affiliations, we traipsed back to Ye Okie Alma Mater to resume our studies in our own classrooms and to grasp an opportunity to make use of that extra late leave every week granted only to Seniors. Many of our nights during our Senior year were spent working on the Private Floors with either Miss Martelonis, Miss Jones or Miss Connors to greet us with a cheery good morning bright and early every morn, and with the Misses Fluck, Fritz and Strock keep- ing the vigil over us throughout the night. The nights were sometimes long and dragged out, and our eyes would have a tendency to droop a little and our head tend to fall to one side in a light doze, but that was all absent on the cold nights when the north wind would howl around the west corner of the building, banging the doors, flapping the window shades, and upsetting the flowers in tit i £ Vr v the dark, dismal corridors; and above all awakening the patients, who were sent back to Dreamland with the aid of a little red or yellow capsule. We accumulated some helpful experience in the Out-Patient Department . . . Over in the Clinics with Miss Fine: draping patients. assisting the doctors and medical students with examinations, listening to their prob- lems and tales of woe (as il 1 didn ' t have enough on my mind) and so referring them back to clinic in another week or so. [wo weeks were spent working in the Admission Room under Mrs. Bringhurst (who shared honors with Mr. Anthony. Now my probem is ... ) and occasionally slipping over to the Accident Ward to witness or to assist with some unusual case brought in. Maybe it would be a simple stab wound through the heart or a bi-chloride of mercury poisoning or slashed wrists or maybe just a plain D.O.A. In