Presbyterian St Lukes Hospital School of Nursing - Alpha Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

Page 32 text:

CHARLES A. WORDELL Superintendent [28]

Page 31 text:

to be paid back at the convenience of the borrower. The Fund is kept up to a certain amount by Mrs. Borden, and is of the greatest assist- ance in emergencies arising in Social Service work. The Woman ' s Board has also established an Occupational Therapy Department, with a trained teacher in charge. Junior nurses are given training in this department as oppor- tunity permits. This work is of great importance and helps very materially in the cure of many cases where the period of convalescence can be shortened by interest in work of some description. Knitting, car- pentry, basket-weaving, leather work, wool work, artificial flowers, rug-weaving and many other forms of handicraft are taught to the con- valescing patients. Nurses find the training obtained in this department of great value in private nursing. The Woman ' s Board employs a trained kindergartner for half of each day to conduct a Kindergarten in the ward, which is a great help to the nurses in care of the children. The Delicacies Committee of the Woman ' s Board solicits gifts of preserves, jellies, fruits and other delicacies for distribution to the patients in the wards. At Thanks- giving and Christmas appropriate dinners for everyone in the Hospital are provided by this Committee, and during the Summer gifts of fruit and vegetables are distributed among the nurses and patients. The Emergency Committee of the Woman ' s Board endeavors to meet the needs of the Hospital in the matter of unusual and expensive apparatus which can not always be purchased with the ordinary funds of the Institution. This applies especially to X-Ray and Laboratory apparatus. The Library Committee subscribes for magazines and periodicals which are of interest to the nurses. Stand- ard and modern novels are also provided for the nurses ' sitting-room and for the use of the patients. The Nurses ' Committee of the Hospital arranges for occasional dances for the nurses, and for other entertainments from time to time. This Committee also endeavors to keep the nurses ' rooms in as cheerful a condition as possible, and secures money in order to defray expenses of the nurses ' graduation by arrang- ing for a series of lectures to be given each year in Lent. At the time each class graduates the Committee ar- ranges for the services in church and for the reception to the nurses and their friends which follows. This Committee also gave an entire equip- ment of new china and silver for the nurses ' dining-room, and has just had the nurses ' sitting-room, and rooms for the use of nurses who are ill, redecorated and refurnished. The Committee on Free Beds contributes liberally to the support of free beds and in this way enables the Hospital to care for more tree patients than otherwise would be possible. [27]

Page 33 text:

The House Staff BY the time the medical student reaches his senior year he very suddenly is confronted by the enormity of his problem; school associations mean less, fraternity affiliations are secondary, even school spirit begins to wane. He sees, hears, talks of only his three-fold goal, a diploma, a license, an interneship. For many years graduates of the better medical schools have become internes for periods varying from one to two years, to supplement their theoretical with a practical training. For several years past, the interne- ship has ocdlipied a more prominent place because diplomas are withheld by Class A medical schools until the successful com- pletion of the interne year. Consequently, appointments as internes in the better hospitals are sought after with much keener rivalry than ever before. St. Luke ' s Hospital has long held an enviable position from the internes ' stand- point. Men have gone out from withm its walls to all parts of the country and have made good. The wealth of clinical material, the thorough teaching by the members of the Hospital Staff, the rotation place of services, the well equipped and well directed laboratories and the fact that almost every kind of case is admitted to the Hospital, provide a training which equips the young doctor to cope with the problems of the general practitioner and specialist alike. The life of the interne is full of trials and tribulations. His friend is the nurse. He needs help and she supplies it. He tells her his troubles and she listens. He craves sympathy and she gives it. He scolds her and she takes it with good grace. There results a mutual understanding and loyalty which cannot be duplicated in any other profession. For the interne the day begins early and ends late. Whether fat like Wendel, skinny like Ajax, tall like Budge, or short like Quincy, he makes rounds with Tommy, Hal, King Arthur, or Hoppie ; assists at operations; writes histories; makes physicals ; fabricates case-notes; does preps ; slings plaster; puts on splints; adjusts braces; moves patients; answers emergency calls; listens to tales of woe; argues with the laboratory over a white count; is caught eating in the pantries; and, incidentally, while doing the above, walks from six to ten miles. Then, when about lo p. M. his tete-a-tete with some night nurse is cruelly ended by one Miss Gooch, he adjourns to the quarters for a sociable little game of roodles only to be again interrupted by Pansy with a case in 4W, or by the clerk with an accident or card to sign. This goes on, day in and day out. But the interne is a philosopher. He argues that even if he is to the hospital what the devil is to the printing office, there have been some mighty fine devils before him. Among them, now members of the Attending Staff, or frequently seen in the Hospital, are the following: Doctors Frank Cary, John L. Porter. Joseph Brenneman, Thomas H. Lewis, C. W. Hopkins, James G. Campbell, William L. Wilson, Wilham B. Fisk, Robert J. Gay, R. W. Morris, H. B. Thomas, N. C. Gilbert, Arthur B. Supple, Walter H. Theobald, Philip Lewin, Robert Newman, W. S. Gibson, Lewis H. Morill, Lawrence H. Mayers, W. H. Byford, George Karl Fenn, W. H. Hazlett, Bryed Wilson, Frank G. Murphy, John Mitchell, H. O. Jones, Will L. Lyon, Theodore L. Hansen, Harold A. Bachman, Carl V. Shipley, B. R. Johnson, G. F. Hibbert. [29]