Jefferson Medical College School of Nursing - Nosokomos Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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W gg, NWA L Acknowledgement 'JC IT is not possible to personally thank all those who have helped to make this book possible. However, we are taking this opportunity to thank all our contributors, Miss Frye and Miss Nune- maker for their suggestions and support, all the members of the staff, and ivlr. Hawk, the repre- sentative of The Feroe Publishing Company. lt will be with pleasure that we recall the busy hours spent in publishing this Nosokomos. Frances lohnston 9

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Vtsthng Day tn the Ward S everyone knows, visiting days in the ward are Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from three until five o'clock. There is usually some bustling about in the morning to get the baths given, the closets straightened and various other duties which will make the ward and patients presentable for the swarm of visitors which usually invade the wards. Ahout 2.45 P. M. they begin to straggle in with bundles and flowers. It is not unusual to have someone ask the nurses where the Fraternity Ward is or the Guinea Ward or even the Tele- scopic Ward. The ward is usually fairly well filled with visitors by 3.15. It is then that the nurses receive requests for vases or baskets for a half-dozen sweet peas, or three or four carnations. Then it is that nurses begin to realize they have nerves, for vases that small are much of a rarity on the ward floors. Mr. So and So comes up to ask if his wife may have ice cream or bananas. She has just had a Cholecystectomy. Supper comes down about four o'clock. Of course there is soup, bread and butter and dessert-probably pineapple. While serving the trays there are numerous requests for empty bowls and will you please heat this soup which turns out to be a con- glomeration of this, that, and the other thing. After supper, which lasts usually until about 4.30 P. M. nothing much happens. At five o'elock sharp the announcement is made, It's five o'clock, will all visitors please leave? This announcement should really be made about ten minutes earlier ai it always takes the visitors at least ten minutes to say their at tens. The ward surely docs look like it had been shot at and hit after the visitors leave. There are papers on the floor, ice cream boxes, orange peels, and grape seeds on the tables which are already cluttered with boxes, magazines and flowers. It is often quite a task to make the ward look presentable once more. Finally, the ward is straightened once more. Seven o'clock approaches, the nurses say good-night and the patients settle down in their beds completely exhausted. Seventy Friday Morning Changes HETHER it will be Annex or whether it will be kids' house with all its crying children. Oh, dear! perhaps it will be fifth fioor where it is rush, rush from morning until night or perhaps it will be diet kitchen which means rising one-half hour earlier. Maybe we'll go to the surgical floor where we'll not have a minute to spare all day. Horrors! what if it should be clinic or Maternity and we don't know a thing in either one of these fields. Oh! pshaw, second fioor with all its chronies. These are many thoughts in certain nurses' minds on Thursday night. Half asleep and thinking how nice it would be to go homc and sleep a couple more hours, Miss Shafer suddenly aroused me from my dreams by saying, Miss Fit, Operating Room. What, this must be Friday! Gosh, my heart must be beat- ing at least two-hundred a minute. What's that funny quivering feeling at the pit of my stomach? Thanks to the girls at breakfast for telling me my duties and requirements while in Clinic. Depositiug an untouched breakfast tray in the kitchen, l finally find myself in 4 O. R. After a few minutes of feeling that I am an extra piece of furniture, somebody whispers, Here comes Scotty. vs Why is she looking at us so disgustedly? We are only five new clinic nurses. After being formally introduced to the Odds and Ends Bag, Miss Scott shows tts the technic of draping a patient. I am be- coming interested in counting Bland sponges when a Good morning, Miss Smith, again makes my knees weaken. At last our assignment is given ns and cautiously we enter the O. R.'s of our Clinic days. The supervisor turns and rather disgustedly says. You may go to the stock room.

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