Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital Nursing School - Fluoroscope Yearbook (Hinsdale, IL)

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.i i , 'E ,-Q3 r-F.- W -Evil Operating Room GERTRLYDE FLEMING RUSINE f ' PERATIONS, surgeons, scalpels, anaesthetics, sutures, cauteries. and trans- ei, QI fusions are terms which do not present an interesting picture to many in- n dividuals. Not so.with the Hinsdale nursesl .lVe come up the ladder, round ' by round, first viewing an operation occasionally and touching surgery in connection with other nursing subjects, then taking surgical nursing as a class subject, and later taking our drills in operating room technique. In our senior year, that eventful and long remembered period, we work in the operating room for hve or six weeks. Everyone feels a tinge of nervousness over the first operation in which she is to handle the instruments or prepare sutures. Our work is arranged in a progressive, systematic manner. Flunky nurse we have termed ourselves the first weekg professionally we are third nurse. Our duties are varied and many. VVe set the dressing trays, clean the instrument cup- boards, circulate during operations, wash the furniture in operating room after operations and mop the white tile floor. Quite a number of items might be added to this list differing somewhat with the work of the week. During our second week we are suture or second nurse. Then we feel that we are more a part of the surgical department. There may be from one to four, or even more operations scheduled for a day. An emergency comes in fre- quently and these do not wait until everything is cleaned up and we have enjoyed a good rest. In our busiest months we average about 100 operations. There are three nurses besides our supervisor, Miss McMartin, working in thc operating room in the daytime. In preparing for an operation the suture and in- strument nurses consume ten minutes in diligently scrubbing the hands and arms with a small scrub brush and green soap. This is done under running water. After soaking them in alcohol we don our sterile gowns and gloves. The sterile supplies are now opened and the tables and rings which hold the bowls containing the sterile solutions are draped. The instruments and suture ma- terial are boiled twenty minutes and then brought into the operating room where the sterile nurses arrange them on the tables and thread the needles with catgut and silkworm. The sponges are counted and all accounted for before the last closing of the wound. The patient is brought in on a carrier and transferred to the operating table. The anaesthetic may be started while the doctors are scrubbing up. Miss Beulah Sarber is our anaesthetist. Ether is the more commonly used anaesthetic although ethelyne is coming into popular favor. Nitrous oxide gas is frequently used for minor operations. During the operation the instrument nurse hands the instruments to the doctors as they have need of them. She keeps her table in order and a supply of operation there is the usual cleaning. If there is not another operation on at once We have a little time to make supplies and wrap the linen which is sterilized under steam pressure in one of the autoclaves. As a whole We enjoy our work in the operating room and look back on it as one of the high points in our training. It is a work which calls for co-operation, clean sponges on hand. After the punctuality and accuracy. Fifty-six A 1

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Fifi-3 ' G12 Cccupational - Therapy EVELINA CHABOT q A NE cold, stormy afternoon while at the sanitarium, I found myself a little .stil restless. All the books and magazines failed to interest me, and as I fit sat in the parlor I must have looked rather disconsolate. I had been 'MU sitting there but a short time when one of the nurses came along and spoke to mc. She was the first one I had niet at the santitarium. Come for a little walk with me, she said. Being just a wee bit homesick I decided to go with her. She led the way toward the she many pretty things that the patients were chapel and I wondered what she had in mind. But I did not have to wait, for soon found her way into the Occupational-therapy Department. Here we saw making-burnt wood work, hand paint- ings, rug weaving, paper flowers, and basketry, Hut I thought they were too hard for me to make. I was introduced to Mr. Hess, the manager of this department. Just what would yon like to do? he Chl nothing, sir! I'm too nervous to nurse. Let us go out for another walk. Now look here, said Mr. Hess, here make. Let me start one for you. See, all just what color would you like to finish it I found myself watching him and soon so interested that I did not lind time enou w asked me. do anything like that. I know I can't, is a iine, little basket and very easy to you have to do is to watch me. Now with when it is done? trying to work it myself, and became h In spend there. I kept so interested that I soon forgot myself and started to gain, for making baskets was so much fun. It turned my worries inside out, and made me happy as a king. Extract from a Letter I-Iome LUCILLE SCHROEDER .--- gi - if NT ll t OXV time does Hy! Nearly two weeks have passed since I first came to Hinsdale. Very soon I shall be well enough to make my homeward jour- ney, antdl I shall be so glad to see you and tell you of the interesting: time I have had here and all about my recovery. Really, I can't wait 1 tell you of some of the departments and their work. I think one of the most interesting and the one that has helped me the most is the Electrical. Dr. Neall has charge of this department and he surely knows how to give good treatments. The machine that he uses to give my treatment is called the 'high frequency' and with it he can give four different currents. There are also several other kinds of machines that look mysterious and inter- esting, but since I'm'not an electrical expert, I do not know much about them, How would you like to look at a one-thousand watt light? Now dori't get frightened because it isn't used to look at, but to give treatments with. I only wish you could be here for a few days and see for yourself some of the 'wonders' at Hinsdale. XVhen I think of my rapid recovery and the way in which electricity is used to aid the doctors and nurses in their work I just feel as if I'd like to get acquainted and shake hands with Benjamin Franklin for his wonderful discovery. Fifty-eight