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

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0l96lI'fl'i'l8I'li Feeding Time. There are three large modernly equipped delivery rooms which are kept busy practically all the time. The two big and airy nurseries, under the able supervision of Miss Chapman, which have room for about 60 to 65 cribs, take over the responsibilities and the care of the newborn. There is also an isolation nursery which has 10 to l5 cribs. The student nurse spends six weeks in the nursery, learning to bathe and feed the tiny infants and she also helps the doctor with the circumcisions. One week of these six she spends in the formula kitchen preparing the 'lhousen and special formulas. The four following weeks she takes care of the mothers and instructs them in the care of their babies. There is usually a monthly average of 240 babies born at this hospital. One of the Nurseries. Thirty-nilzf

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Odd fefrica DR. A. M. TVTCCARTHY The Obstetrieal Department is one of the biggest and busiest departments of the hospital. In addition to her supervising the third iloor, Sister Hedwig also heads this department. The department offers 60 beds for mothers who stay four or five days after delivery. There are seven labor rooms and one Hprepu room where the mother takes a shower and undergoes the necessary preparations for the delivery room. It is here that the student nurse starts her' service in the Obstetrical Department. After one week in the prep room the student nurse spends three weeks in the delivery room which also includes watching the mothers during their labor. It is here the young student nurse meets the most overwhelming impression of her whole training- the birth of a child. Delivery Room T11i1'Iy-v1'gl1I

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DR. PAU L REI CHLE ommunicagi iaecwea After completing classes taught by Doctors Reichle and E. VV. Hayes, the stu- dents go to Los Angeles County Hospital and Barlow Sanatorium for their practical communicable disease training. Six weeks at Barlovv's gives the girls first hand Work in caring for tuberculous patients and fitting into the regime of the Sanatorium. lVIiss Voight R.N. is in charge of the teaching of student nurses there. ln the old C.D. building at Los Angeles County General Hospital many of the other girls become acutely aware of the little bugs causing contagious diseases. Every kind of disease from leprosy to measles is cared for. Mrs. Rabe R.N., the student's instructress will be remembered for the man helpful lectures and demon- . , Y strations she gave. On completion of CD. training, the students feel that they knovv how to safely care for a patient Without danger' of spreading disease. Forty Barlow Sanatorium