Metropolitan Community College - Sunburst Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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ii THE KAYSEER '28 111,1i.1.,1.,u-,.1,,1,,1,,10101.-14.1.ii...-..1...-.,1.,1.,1..1.,1r .11.-.4--pi101.f1.-10101-,1.,gi,1--q..1-,1.,1v.1..1..1- 1-.1 Department of Nursing Six in the morning is early to rise- lt doesn't make us wealthy but we're told it makes us Six-thirty for chapel is only thirty ticks away, A few minutes of devotion and we're ready for the day. Breakfast dispensed with, to our patients we hurry, For morning always finds everything in a flurry. There are baths to give and temperatures to take. Treatments to give and rounds to make. Here a fading grandmother, there a new born babe, Over yonder in the last bed, a boy with broken leg. Sentiments are mingled-a tear first, then a smile- But there is a fascination that holds us all the while. wise

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THE KAYSEER '28 Department of Nursing The nursing division offers a one-semester course designed especially for preliminary students of hospital nursing schools, covering principles and prac- tice of nursing, history of nursing, anatomy, hygiene, chemistry, bacteriology, and dietetics. Following her college course the nurse completes her three year course at one of the local hospitals. In 1918 the first classes for nurses were organized at Junior College, with an enrollment of sixty, from seven hospitals. The following year a full course was arranged for the beginners from nursing schools. Four nurse instructors conducted the courses in nursing subjects, and four college instructors carried the sciences. By the end of the second year the enrollment had increased greatly and a full time instructor, Miss Helen Farnsworth, a graduate nurse, was added to the department. In 1926 a second graduate nurse. Miss Lela Rahe, was employed, From 1918 to the present time 1,264 students have been enrolled. About 120 have been in this year's classes. l'i1y4' l nnf'Ii

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THE KAYSEER '28 Pre-Medic Club OFFICERS First Semester Second Semester NATHANIEL SODERBERG - President S,,.. GUSTAVE ROY WENDELL CLAYTON - -Vice-President - - e MARGARET FIELD GUSTAVE ROY .,,, Secrelary-Treasurer , , MIRIAM EUBANK :iffy The Pre-Medic division of Junior College is not organized, and in order that activities might be directed, the Pre-Medic club was formed in 1921. Its membership includes chiefly those who are preparing themselves for the medical profession. Programs of the Pre-Medic club consist of talks by prominent medical men of the city, or talks or demonstrations by members who have carried on experiments. Pre-Medics also are often invited to witness operations, provid- ing them with the opportunity to become acquainted with a phase of work with which they will soon come in contact. St. Pat's day offered a chance for the club to show the school some of the work that the members of this division have been doing. Biology, anatomy. and bacteriology students helped prepare and explain the exhibits shown, The needed social atmosphere for the club was furnished by parties during the Christmas holidays and in the spring. Refreshments at meetings have been a popular means of divertisement. nge Simi run llll