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

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Junior Year . . . Suddenly it was time to add our quarter-inch black velvet stripe to our caps, we were ' Juniors. Vacation time was over and classes started. We started our first specialty — genito-urinary, gynecology, chest surgery and orthopedics. On G.U. we became experts at irrigating foleys and doing fluid balance — how many cc ' s did you drink today? On orthopedics we got very confused. Was it a circus or a hospital with all the ropes, pulleys, bars, etc.? Then on chest surgery we experienced a very challenging service. We observed open heart operations, then cared for the patient post-operatively. We learned how to care for the patient with many new types of equipment. Finally gynecology awaited us with its hysterectomies, D C ' s P.I.D. ' s and the treatments — heat lamps and irriga- tions. We then experienced work behind the scenes — the operating room. This was very different and exciting. Our first scrub was quite an experience — would we remember the instrument ' s names, how to hand the instruments and would the surgeon veil if we made a mistake? No, it wasn ' t as bad as we anticipated. After a few scrubs, we had developed more skill and confidence even though we did get butterflies when we heard our next scrub was for Dr. ■ — . For the next three months we spent an enjoyable and exciting time on Obstetrics. hat a thrill it was when we saw our first delivery. Howev er it was different when we had to work shift for the first time on ante-partum — timing contractions, taking fetal hearts, and knowing when to take her back to D.R. How many unsteriles did you have? In the nursery, we learned to care for the newborn as well as teaching the mothers to care for them and best of all was dressing the babies to go home. And now as a junior we went on our vacation. We were happy to leave even though it was winter, but were even happier to return to Hahnemann at the end of four weeks. Then to pediatrics we traveled. This was a little different — caring for the sick children. However, it was quite rewarding to be able to give these children tender loving care. Remember the fun we had in dirty nursery keeping all the little ones dry, the cutdowns at 6 gtts per minute, how our foreign language interpretation came into play, and the shiny bottle warmer. During our junior year we began to function as a class — always bugging someone to buy or donate something. That ' s the class of 1960. We had bake sales and dances and sold sweatshirts, and stationery to pay for the prom in honor of the class of 1959. At this time we began to look forward to our senior year which will have many more memories. 24