Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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tion to each other, and human society as a Whole. It is' this frame of mind that University Hospital nurses Will help to develop in Whatever community they enter. If the Social Service Department is able to help the- nurses to do this, We shall, through them, exert an education.al force reaching far- ther than We can calculate. It is for them to make social service effective in this Way and in this Way to make effective the old truth that 'Uno man liveth unto himself. S i MARY ANTONIETTE CANNoN. l 9 Things that cant be forgotten Hush Baby A t S-s-s-s-s-s- ch Hard egg, Louise Gussie's finger Nan's complexion Dorner's fiddle Micky's giggle t Corn bread Fish now and forever more Sore feet Dr. Hirst's lectures Kievits' accent 100

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But whatever career any human being may choose or have thrust upon him or her Qshort of that of a hermit or a Robin- son Crusoej, experience in social work should not come amiss. just as knowledge gained in all sorts of other fields is helpful in social service, so the insight, resourcefulness and breadth of vision which good social work must develop are of use in all other vocations, in institutional nursing, in private nursing, in public-health nursing, also in matrimony and in the gentle art of being a neighbor and a citizen. VVe need not remind those who have read the first chapter of f'Social Diagnosis that social science has its bearing on the work of the doctor, the lawyer, the clergyman and the educator, to all of whom it owes so much. lt is a broad conception of the meaning of social service that our Department means to give its students, rather than a mastery of technical detail, for which they have neither time nor inclination. Such a conception must, to be sure, like the sky-scraper, have a concrete foundation, and fo it must be built not on talk alone Qthough talk is not to be despisedj, but also on practical and thorough case work. VVe do not forget the facts or the prinicples which have been brought to our knowledge by obstacles which we have over- come in the sweat of our brows, therefore we study sociology not from books so much as from the daily life of lVIr. and Mrs. john Doe and the nine little Doe children. Yet, after all, the variety of problems and methods that can be covered in two months' experience is limited, no one can become a trained social worker in so short a time. VVhat can be done an-d the one thing needful to do is to get a social point of view. r that reason The social point of view is by no means confined to social . Wfe all know socially-minded people in every walk of life. They consider individual persons in their rela- 99 wo rke rs

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A Nurse's Attitude from a Patient's Viewpoint l'Ve no time for medicine t No time at all today, a Or to make the liniment To rub your aches away. I've no time to dress your wound Or cheer a heart that is blue, Because I'll be busy nursing- Nursing the whole day through. But if on the morrow VVhen I've made supplies a few, VVashed the charts and swept the Ward And watered a plant or two, Then, if no lnterne Wants me To help him dressings do, Perhaps l can Hnd a little time To be a-nursing you. E. W. CLEMENT 101