Jones County Junior College - Lair Yearbook (Ellisville, MS)

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Comparing notes and anecdotes can be both instructive and entertaining. Here, a group of nurses gather in the conference room for discussion. Student nurse Dandra Peacock, drawing a solution for an iniection, looks efficient and calm. 'M . ff ,,,.J ll' v,.,N K , ww Z . 1 . S5 ,Z Q . tt,1t,tt.,tt11 ., 1 1 . ,- ' : i t- f . A 1 s Student nurse Martha Hourguettes is observed by Frances Temple while taking a nursing history.

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Tender loving core coming up The A D Nursing program prepares students to become registered nurses. Graduates of the program are eligible to write for State Board Test Pool Examination which is the national test- ing for registered nurses. Jobs are easily found for graduates, and for- mer JC students are now in hospitals throughout the state - from the coast to Jackson and in all the sur- rounding area hospitals. The ratio of faculty to students in the nursing program is that of one instructor to ten students. On campus at JC is a learning lab where students can learn nursing techniques and pro- cedures. Students also go to the hos' pitals -- Laurel General, Jones County Community Hospital and to Ellisville State School for study in growth and development in mental retardation. Freshmen go twice weekly to the hospitals for three and a half hours per day while sophomores go three times per week for four hours a day. At the hospital each student stays with one patient. Students learn to give medication, give shampoos, baths, position patients, change dressings, check vital signs, make assessments, check input and output, and various other things in the line of duty. instructors hold pre-conference sessions at the hospitals to discuss what will be done and afterward hold a post conference to discuss care given during the rnorn- ing and to answer questions. On campus is a chapter of the Mis- sissippi Association for Student Nurses. 'Se It is important to gain confidence and expertise before practicing on a per- son. Martha Hourguettes practices the insertion of a naso-gastric tube on a model showing passages in the human body. I ,,f',7, jrqr it ' city? . .,,. b Z. Q ,W It s'-r- -eg V, K Frequent assessments of students' progress are 1 in- Mi t necessary. Here, Linda King, student nurse, ' checks blood pressure through a dual stetho- V 't scope with instructor Linda Suttle. 30 I Nursing i

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32 X Business Ms. Frances Thomas heads the Business division at JCJC. 5 Practicing by copying problems from the book helps students learn to type faster and with fewer errors