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

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hood, a she is gaining poise and prestige, she drops a glass, breaks a syringe or steps on a doctor's oot A Student Nurse is a composite She eats like a team of hungry interns, and works like the whole nursing staff put together She has the speed of a gazelle, the strength of an ox, the quickness of a cat, the endurance of a flagpole sitter, and abilities of Florence Nightingale, Linda Richards and Clara Barton all rolled into one white uniform To the head nurse she has the stability of mush, the fleetness of a snail, the mentality of a mule, and is held together by starch, adhesive tape and strained nerves To an alumna she will never work as hard, carry more trays, make more beds, or scrub on more cases than her predecessors. A Student Nurse likes days off, boys her own age, the OR, affiliations, certain doctors, pretty clothes, her roommate, mom and dad. She's not much on working 3-11, days off with classes, alarm clocks, getting up for roll call, or eating turkey on Thursday. No one else looks forward so much tothat day off or so little to working 3-11. No one else gets so much pleasure from straightening a wrinkled sheet or wetting a pair of parched lips. No one else can cram into one little head the course of so many diseases, the bones compris- ing the pelvis, what to do when a patient is in shock, how to insert a Cantor tube Qusually at 3 a.m.J, plus the angles on how to catch that cer- tain beau. A Student Nurse is a wonderful creature, you can criticize her, but you can't discourage hergyou can hurther feelings, but you can't make her quit. Might as well admit it, whether you are a head nurse, doctor, alumna or patient, she is your personal representative of the hospital, your living symbol of faith and sympathetic care. Barbara Garrity, TORCH OF UNION Student's Nurses Association of Virginia, February 1959. x I