Rex Hospital School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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g 2 wziilz Education HE Rex School of Nursing is the 'old- est school of nursing, and one of the largest accredited schools of nursing, in North Caro- lina. In the past few years many progres- sive changes have been made. The student body, consisting of eighty-eight students, is larger this year than ever before. We feel that this department has been privileged in obtaining the teaching cooperation of such an excellent hospital staff. Our classrooms consist of a chemistry lab- oratory, a nutrition laboratory, two lecture rooms, a demonstration room, and a library. All students have access to these at any time during the day. We consider the library quite an asset to the school. During the past few months many books, both reference and general, have been added. The course of instruction covers three years, and is based on the Curriculum for Schools of Nursing issued by the Educational Committee of the National League of Nursing Education. The changing nurs- ing school curricula is a constant challenge to the student nurse. Because the philosophy of nursing education is progressing, our school is providing her students with more adequate preparation for hos- pital and community service. 67312541 HE out-patient clinics of Rex Hos- pital meet daily in the afternoons from Monday to Friday inclusively, and also on Wednesday mornings. In the course of a year, the various types of patients make al- most 20,000 visits to the clinic. The differ- ent clinics held are: luetic on Monday, medical, cardiac, and skin on Tuesday, genito-urinary on Wednesday morning with prenatal on Wednesday afternoon, surgical and gynecological on Thursdayg and pedia- trics on Friday. The Junior League spon- sors the white prenatal clinic on Wednesday and the pediatrics clinic on Friday. Service cases for tonsilectomy and adenoidectomy are examined and admitted on Monday and Wednes- day afternoons for operation the following morning. Follow-up surgical dressings are done daily, Mon- day to Thursday, from one to two o'clock in the afternoons. Traumatic and other serious eye cases are referred to the private office of the ophthalmologist on service. The hospital-sponsored clinics are staffed by at least one visiting doctor, an interne who is assisted by the medical resident, a graduate nurse and two to three senior nurses. The clinics run by the Junior League have very much the same type of staff, except that members of the Junior League take an active part in the management of the patients. The clinics are located at the western end of the ground floor at the new Rex Hospital. Waiting rooms provide ample seating capacity for both white and colored pa- tients. Six rooms make up the examination and treatment suiteg however, three of these rooms are re- served for the use of the Junior League. Sixteen

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LL'Z49E'Zy N nearly every hospital the Department of Surgery is the largest and most active. This is true of our hospital. We are very proud of our Surgical Department, not only because we believe that ours is the best in the State, but also because of the amount and character of work we contribute and the training and experience we derive from it. At the head of the department is the chief of the Surgical Service. There are also six active surgeons who serve two months each during the year. They care for the service and unassigned patients who come for treatment in the emergency room, or in the out-patient department or for hospitalization. To the emergency room at all hours of the day and night, come all kinds of minor accidents which are cared for by the nurses and internes. In the well-equipped clinic or out-patient department we acquire considerable experience in working with the internes and junior surgeons. The surgery is complete in all the essential details. There are three active operating rooms under the supervision of an experienced graduate nurse and her assistant. There are two most efficient anesthetists and sufiicient student nurses to assist in these operating rooms. It is here that we realize the absolute necessity of accuracy, speed, and safety in all details pertaining to operating-rooni technique. 5Vlecficine HE medical service of Rex Hospital in the past three years has undergone a remarkable increase in the number of patients treated. Formerly, surgical admissions to the hos- pital outnumbered medical admissions by about two to one. At the time of this writing the number of patients admitted for medical conditions has equaled those for surgery for the past six months and shall probably continue to do so. With this growth the charity service has more than kept pace. The thirty-two beds allocated for service patients in our hos- pital have been full constantly and the lengthy waiting list taxes at all times the best thought of our house officers in their efforts to decide who is most worthy and needy as well as next in line of admission. Of these thirty-two beds the medical service utilizes half and the conditions treated truly comprise the most important afiiictions of the citizens of this community. Seventeen