Miami Valley Hospital School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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Communicable Disease Department ANY s'rEPs FORWARD have been taken in the care of com- municable diseases over the scheme of things a number of years ago, when the pest-house was the official recipient of cases of this type. Present philosophy indicates that rather than denying full hospital privileges for patients suffering from a communicable disease with other complications, it is most desirable to give attention to the medical or surgical complications existent in the patient under a method of treatment and nursing care wherein the danger of cross infection is reduced to a minimum. Hospitals, generally, still continue the practice of not accepting a majority of the cases falling into the communicable disease classifica- tion, unless the patient needs medical or surgical care beyond that indicated by the communicable disease itself. The function of this department. constantly operating under the shadow of cross infection, demands perfected techniques in the giving of rapid, thorough and complete treatment and care to the patients hospitalized. Concentration of communicable diseases in one department has no doubt been a contributing factor, although not the most important, in the reduction of the mortality rate in cases such as meningitis, diphtheria and the like. Because of its importance, all students receive four weeks experience in the communicable disease division. Since many of the patients with communicable diseases are children, the students are routinely given sixteen weeks experience in the children's department before being taught communi- cable disease nursing. Formal teaching in communicable disease nursing consists of a fifty hour course taught by various members of the medical and nursing instructional staff. The most recent major development in the car of communicable disease cases and one which has caught the public fancy is the invention of the 'espirator, commonly called the Iron Lung, which is used in cases where normal breathing of the patient has temporarily ceased. The precision with which such a unit puts into practical use certain scientific theories to reconstruct in a mechanical way the individual's physical method of breathing is extremely dramatic. H 'Gr

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