Lakeview Hospital School of Nursing - Annual Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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TI-IE ANNUAL THE TRAINING SCHOOL Query-What is a Training School for nurses? First and foremost, it is really a SCHOOL where many things must be studied and learned. The young woman who enters this school Wishes to be a nurse -to be able to give skillful care to the sick. This means Ctho she does not know itl that she wishes to learn to OBEY ORDERS, just as a soldier does, in order that later she may be trusted to carry out the doctor's orders and be fitted to take her share of responsibility as it affects the very life of the patient. It means that she must learn to feed the sick properly: to note the symptoms seen in the patient and report them to the physiciang to give the treatments ordered and note the result: to administer medicine as ordered and report intelligently the effects observedg to nurse again and again in spite of great difficulties the sick back to health, and to be in the great emergencies of life a tower of strength to the bereaved. Second, The School of Nursing is really a TRAINING School. The young nurse is first taught how to do a thing and then sent on the hospital Hoors to DO IT and to do it repeatedly until it is second nature. There is a right way to give a bath, a right way to administer a medicine, a right way to apply a bandage, a right way to do each thing, and this she must learn from her text books, from the lectures of the physicians who give of their time to teach her, and from the instructions and practice on the hospital floors. The old, old axiom that Practice Makes Perfect is very thorough- ly believed and proved in a training school for nurses. Indeed there are some days during the three years of training when a nurse thinks she could dispense with perfection if it must come in this way! But she continues to practice, to obey orders, and to learn more of the manifold duties which are hers and finally the time of graduation comes and she is ready to go out into the world a TRAINED NURSE. b Is it worth the effort-the hard work she has put into it? Thousands of nurses are ready to respond with an emphatic afhrmative. Why? Nursing is never easy work. Why, then, the devotion to it? Is it not because of the opportnnities it affords for meeting the real needs of human life-the giving of self in service? But preceding these wonderful opportunities are the years of training spent in faithful study and conscientious work in the School of Nursing of some hospital. All work? All solemnity? Oh, no! All work and no play is just as bad for Jane as it is for Jack. There is a chance now and then for a party, a ride with some friend, an informal dance, a game of volley ball in the new gymnasium, an all night leave to go home--something to get her out of the serious hospital atmosphere and afford a little relaxation and fun. No one needs or deserves this chance for a laugh and a good time more than the Page twentyj

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Tl-IE ANNUAL nurse. There should be happiness in every' life, of course, but she especial- ly needs to possess joy and cheer, not merely for her own sake but that she may bring them to her patient. The Training School and its officers appre- ciate this need and co-operate heartily in the effort to give pleasure its right- ful place in the school life. Having been intrusted with the charge of such a school, I Wish to invite other young Women to come andjoin the ranks of pupil nurses who have al- ready signified their desire to be enrolled with the number of those who serve humanity and this invitation I am sure is seconded by the students of the school, by the Alumnae of the hospital and most emphatically by the class of 1922, who are so soon to embark on their greater S-E-R-V-I-C-E. HELEN E. WOOD, R. N., Superintendent of School of Nurses. at SENIOR CLASS SONG Gold and White our colors are- This class of '22. Gold stands for honor bright And the service We render, too. We have our faults like any class And We've blunders made in our happy past, But vve'll all be leaving soon. S-E-R-V-I-C-E Is our motto strong and true, And vve'll do our best to follow it. Our class of '22, Undaunted We do our best to be, We're full of fun and jollity: So We'll work-Work-Work with a right good will- This class of '22. So here's to the gold and White, We're loyal in the right. We're full of pep and courage too And loyal to our dear Lake View. A happy class and true. llhrrff'i1aw':rIg1-om'