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

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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

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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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lVlARY S.-XCKSTEDER ommunifg AMAA During her training, each student nurse spends eight weeks in the Santa Rita Clinic which is a charitable organization owned and operated by the Catholic VVelfare Bureau in close association with our Queen of Angels Hospital. The clinic is now under the supervision of lyliss lVIoore and the staff of doctors include specialists in every field of medicine. The student spends two weeks in the clinic working behind the desk, taking his- tories on new patients and becoming familiar with how the clinic is organized and operated. After this the student works directly with the doctors and nurses. She carries out routine procedures and treatments, and in general, carries the responsibilities of an oflice nurse. A'Going on Public Health gives the student an opportunity to go into the homes. Here she learns to develop her judgment, exercise proper technique with make- shift equipment and above all to teach the public the importance of health and how to guard it. This is one of the most interesting as well as one of the most rapidly expanding branches in the field of nursing. Mfioing on lluhlic' Healllf' Forty-one