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

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I. I Miss Doris GeiTgey, assisTanT in- sTrucTOr in ObsTeTrics, helps TO guide The sTudenT Through The many Tech- niques in The care OT The mOTher and baby. ln Their busy schedule These TwO insTrucTOrs manage The POST GraduaTe PremaTure Nursing course and The many sTudenTs ThaT spend Their TOurTeen weelas On The ObsTeTri- cal TlOOr. Page 70 MRS. MABEL WELLS, gives rewarding self- cOnTidence TO The sTudenTs who come TO learn The inTricacies OT ObsTeTric:s and nurseries. She insTills in The sTudenT a knowledge OT preparTem, inTra- parTum, and pOsTparTum care OT mOThers, as well as The delicaTe care OT newborn babies, and The exTremely sTimulaTing highlighT OT The service, The premaTure inTanT nursing cenTer.

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, D. Swede MISS MARTHA WELKER is The Teaching su- pervisor Tor sTudenTs on duTy in The Communica- ble Disease UniT. NoT only does she Teach The course buT also Teaches The sTudenT The minuTe and imporTanT deTails oT clean and conTaminaTed areas. When on The diTTerenT wards The sTudenTs learn To puT inTo pracTical use her knowledge oT modes oT Transmission, porTals oT enTry, disinTec- Tion oT hands and scrubbing in beTween cerTain cases. These all prevenT cross-inTecTion, The main reason Tor The many precauTions in The uniT. NOT only does Miss Welker acT as insTrucTor buT she is also unoTTicial housemoTher Tor The sTu- denTs who spend a six-weeks residency in The CD. coTTages Ward class adiourns To The lawn one Tine spring day Page 69

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I-Iave a whiff baby? says Miss I-Iarris as she adminisfers vi+aI oxygen 'ro one of Ihe many prema+ure infanfs in The nursery. Oh, you cure Ii++Ie duckling. I bef you wouIcI Iusf Iove Io be picked up. All righ+ I will, buf cIon'+ Iorger, you go++a promise Io burpIheIirs1' +ime. Yes, Miss Moore, I Ihink I do un- dersfand how Ihis mechanism works. This goes here and . . . buf 'reII me, does I+ 'rickIe? 'Baby iI's coId oufside