Lancaster General Hospital Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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t ia, : if l l' 'si Foreword The sense of touch, the linking physical element between the nurse and those in her care, transmits skill, knowledge, and her own innermost feelings so important to both the physical and emotional well-being of her patients. As the young student embarks upon her training days, her hands, initially awkward and unwieldy, become more and more skilled and Flexible, yielding easily to the classroom and practical work in which she becomes wholly absorbed. ln every phase of nursing the student encounters, her hands are indeed one of her most treasured possessions, for only through them can her knowledge be translated into good nursing care. Finally, as she steps forward to receive the cap and pin symbolic of her learning, the maternal love so basic to her nature Hows so freely from her finger- tips, that all her knowledge, empathy, and understanding are transmitted un- knowingly and most skillfully to those entrusted in her care. Follow with us a student from the day her hand opens the door of nursing until it closes the door on her formal basic education, watch her active hands perform the myriad of activities in both work and play. For the nurse learns certainly as much from people and the situations they encounter as from her books. Indeed-the hands, along with the heart and head, form the living symbols of education and service to mankind through nursing. TWO