Queen of Angels College of Nursing - Liber Reginae Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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2lfJ6l,I fI'lflQl'lf The Surgery Stenographel This technique includes the complete setting upu of an operating room in prepf aration for a major operation. All necessary accessories are arranged in their proper place. The two instrument tables are set up with all instruments and sponges in place. For the average major operation there are often! over one hundred instruments required. The next important procedure is that of draping the patient with sterile drapes-the exact method of draping depending on where the incision will be made. During the course of the operation, which may take anywhere from one, two, three or more hours, the nurse must be constantly on the alert and prepared to assist at any emergency that might arise, she is most helpful when she anticipates and has ready the instrument the surgeon wishes. She must be extremely careful in counting sponges and needles before the operation begins, during the opera.tion and again before the incision is closed. It is certainly, while in surgery, as in no other field of nursing that the nurse acquires her unforgettable knowledge of the meaning and value of the words l'sterile and contaminated Surgery girls in attire. TIIITIV ji

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lflfgefg SISTER M. AGNES Louise An operating room supervisor is responsible for instruction of student nurses in operating room technique. This certainly demands special training and always calls for a great deal of executive ability. Sister Agnes Louise R.N., B.S. has proven her- seltl just such a supervisor. She has been at Queen of Angels in charge of surgery for the past four years and during this time has diligently and meticulously guided hundreds of students through their twelve weeks of operating room training. 'lihe student begins her surgical training by first attending lectures dealing with the importance of good operating room technique. She receives an explanation of the various procedures and duties she will be required to fulhll. To the student nurse surgery is no doubt the most interesting and most fascinat- ing service she encounters during her entire three years of training. Here behind a mask and in a sterile gown and gloves the student is certainly in a world set apart from earthly ground. She carefully drapes the patient then deftly arranges the scal- pels, prepares the various sutures and other instruments for which the surgeon may ask. lt is also during this interlude of preparation that the little nurse often trembles internally and possibly externally and prays that she has remembered all and for- gotten none of the O.R. technique that Sister constantly attempts to instill into the minds of her girls. The Operation. Tlzzrty four

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DR. SAMUEL MARTINS Dk. EUGENE HOFFMAN I'lQCO Ogg' l 0 Ogg Gynecology is that branch of medical science that deals with the physiology and diseases of Womeng While Genito-Urinary is that which has to do with the male or- gans of excretion and reproduction. The department that specializes in these cases gives the student several Weeks serv- ice under the able supervision of Sr. NI. Roberta, R.N.,B.S. During this period the student has an excellent chance to observe symptoms and pathology of many cases, both operative and non-operative. The stu- dent is able to see the patients make prog- ress by careful daily observation. The service is divided between bedside nursing and taking charge of the treatments and medications. In bedside nursing, the student has charge of the morning care and her duties continue throughout the day. VVhen the nurse has charge of the treat- ments and medications, she helps the doc- tors with dressings, transfusions, and does many treatments herself. This is good train- ing, as the student learns the fundamentals of charge nursing. There is ample equipment for the treat- ment and care of the patients and every- thing to speed their recovery has been pro- Thirty-six av. 4 . Gag -a ,M M - fee? A-wi g ,2?gif:4M3 ff '. ,f .,,.,, 5 X A ,gp JT 1 Wi M.. Aw , i E 7 3 , si V vided. The service is supplemented by classes in Gynecology and Urology by Doctors Samuel Martizis and Eugene Hoffman re- spectively. Cystoscopy