LA County Medical Center School of Nursing - Rx Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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of- WM ' xmfrgf v v ii i' S ' - X, ,,,.-,, 5 gi. .- - W., , '-2: - ' '-asc wg-2 2' -ff 2 2-.. 1-1 -4363-- , - , .- .- , X 01 - A - '6.:::e:'7 af-A 'K-e.e-14- ' keg!-' 3 bqgvf Sc ' 4 - irnbt THINGS YOU MAY ,NOTA KNOW Do you know- The Los Angeles General Hospital Training School for nurses is 39 years old? , The first class graduated in 1897? Teresa Jordan, who graduated in the first class, is employed in the hospital at present? Q To date the school has graduated 1469 students? -Number .of patients in this hospital July 1, 1932, was 1834, and 46,464 admitted during the fiscal year including births? Number of births during the fiscal year was 3,257 ? Daily average patients during the fiscal year was 1851? Number of visits to out-patient clinics during the fiscal year was 391,059? Daily average patients treated in out-patient clinics was 1,420? There are 42 cooperating hospitals who took care of 5,938 patients for the ounty and 1,359 of this number were births? Daily average General Hospital patient cared for by cooperating Hos- pitals 192? 1 1 The distance from' the Nurses Office in the Administration Building through the tunnel to the first elevator in the new Acute Unit is five- eights of a mile? When the water flooded the buildings during the recent high water, a fish was found in the laundry building-poor fish. THE FLORENCE N IGHTINGALE PLEDGE I solemnly pledge myself before God, and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faith- full . - y I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the prac- tice of my calling. n I 0 , , With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician 1n his work and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care. QThis pledge was composed by Mrs. Lystra Gretter in 1890 for the nurses of the Farrand Training School, Detroit, of which she was super- intendent. It has been used by many nurses throughout the countryb. Eighty-three

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