Norfolk General Hospital School of Nursing - PRN Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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wk 1 ik H ., l 1. Ho1d your hands across your chest. Relax! t O6lYfQff1CS With amazement, gratitude and a firmer belief in miracles, we experienced three months of Obstetrical Nursing. Maternity, Delivery Room, and Nursery enabled us to gain knowledge in all obstetri- cal phases, with additional experience in the Out-Patient Obstetrical Clinic. From this valuable phase of nursing education, we learned efficient professional obstetrical nursing, but as equally important, if not more, was the lesson of the value of human life. We learned, too, from experience, that obstetrics was not always continuous hap- piness, for the patient, for the doctors, or for the nurse. Skilled and joyous reception of a new life at times resulted in the sudden events, further broadening our scope of understanding. We completed this specialty with deeper comprehension of obstetrics with greater knowledge of anatomical and physiological factors, and most certainly with a greater appreciation of human lives. That wasn't so bad, now was it? His name? Leonardo de Vinci, of course.

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.aff i 1' : JS: 5 '61 ,Britain H ,ul mga E L il Isn't this too big to blow in? You mean there were two right gloves in the pack? yzaeofcafcsuryzc 9511119122 y . lim, se, R, In W I-'9'i ,1g, i Y . N,-,,, , But he said he didn't like ice water ! With unsurpassed eagerness, yet with the tingle of fear so characteristic of first, new experiences, we approached our first clinical stepping-stone - that of medical- surgical nursing. Days, weeks, and months of learning situations, conferences and Ward Lifeu prepared us for the years to follow. How the days flew by, leaving memories of happy and of course sad times, but we realize now that these days,withwidely varied activity and experiences, were the molds - ever shaping us into well-functioning professional nurses. During this phase of our education, we heartily agreed with the portion of a writing, What is a Student Nurse ? , the following - On top of, running around and slithering past the patients'bed - doctors yell at them - head nurses criticize them - residents overlook them - mothers worry about them - and patients love them. 30

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5 as if K! :C :N H -me - Q Q w Q W can t 5 N sf' I fi la 1 - Q...-a-e' , Q ' w f a 'ni ..., . ess iii W sw eg, , H f l- We came! Q wr Teamwork is .i' Day is done. Recreational Therapy Ty cmfkzfry Fear of the unknown was a common place emotion, especially when we entered psychiatric nursing on the 9th floor. Total patient care, classes, films, and doctors lectures helped give us a wider view of the psychiatric problems on the ward. As we advanced through this phase of education, we further learned the need for companionship, under- standing and tolerance. Not only did we learnthese vital human needs, but we also learned how to use our knowledge. Daily patient contact, interaction with patients, dis- cussions with the psychiatrists and evaluations of our own feelings in regard to the patients, helped create a very worthwhile educational period. The mental health problems, we could use and understand in a clearer view. Acceptance of it, as we learned, was of prime importance. We left the specialty with a deeper understanding and acceptance of this leading illness. Yes, to the 9th floor, we came. We saw. We Conquered? 32