San Francisco Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Seal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

Page 32 text:

c my' ' ,Iii L V L.. +.JMW3f PLACING A PA'r1rzN'r IN AN ELECTRIC Born-BAKE equipped with everything necessary for teaching nursing procedures as they will be applied in the various wards of the hospital. The treatment room of the demonstration ward is identical with that of the other Wards. ' Demonstration of procedures by the Instructor, in so far as possible, is the method of teaching nursing technique. Then the student demonstrates back to the Instructor. After this the students go into the wards. There under the supervision of their instructor they give such nursing care as has been taught them in the classroom. Each student keeps her own record of the nursing procedures. I The Instructor frequently demonstrates nursing procedures by finding pa- tients in the Wards who need such care or treatments and herself gives this nurs- ing care as a demonstration. The students very much prefer this practice Work with ,actual patients rather than with the ever-ready and long-suffering Chase- doll in the classroom. PATIENT RIzcxz1v'1NG FLums VVHILE IN 'rms Bonx'-BAKE Page35

Page 31 text:

INHALA'rioN Nursing Procedures URSING educators are all agreed as to the importance of the so-called pre- liminary period of nursing education. They accept the fact that at this time students must be taught the primary principles of nursing tech- 1.rVv..,Uru-x nique which are to be the basis for all future nursing work. How to make the application of this accepted principle of nursing education is the problem which confronts all schools of nursing. Two things are very important in order that the Instructor of Nursing technique may do good work: 1. Suflicient time for instruction. 2. Proper equipment. Our School of Nursing uses one of. the hospital wards as a classroom for the demonstration and practice of nursing procedures. This demonstration ward is if - . f MWEWQE Wg www wwa-1e- W.gawwaRwe'aww5i . ,, .- ' ' : a ti- fi? 22 iff .s 1. ff' I , -e y i. I , gf , ,, ,, a,,-453, .5 ...L . :..,:t,W.. ,E L Hwfamua e1 agfwwmqa Qzxf as g.a sag a ':- f 2- I Fil ' . v-I , 'tis'-'-1 ' ' 4 4.,.,,a Q. . . ,. 1 ,I N, . ., Q a:,,,.,..e,.,r,X,., , -,,,., ,sg-.i, 4. Q ..,.!fg4E-:ei , f , ., A . , jg ,.-W , ...ia ,.,.,m.- xsv-.. - . .aa 1 X. fa.-f' L .- - 1, . -I et, .. ,V-2 .off sicf- X -'i- .. f . 4 , - . , , - If., . e ,, ,W f. - -V - N . 2 M. '- '.f-i1E':':Z3 ., '-:1 ' W' -. Q-zo' fu -fs. , ,. ff ,W A :' . , Z . 2.3, 1 - , ei, . ,,., . ,-.sms M I 2 A ..h. .sr CLASSROOJNI DEBIKINSTRATION or A Sunmqgm, Page 34 DRESSING

Page 33 text:

W-wen 'the shades ft MW, Y.- - x Night Duty By A. KNIGHT Paowuan. 'r varying intervals learned professors in different parts of the world arise - and endeavor, by sundry more or less complicated tests to prove that man- kind in general spends entirely too much time reposing in the arms of '! f i'9 Morpheus. The necessary amount of tissue repair can be obtained in anywhere from two to four hours, depending on the professor, and any more time spent between the sheets is an unnecessary waste of valuable time, fbetween you and me the world would be the gainer if a great many people spent twenty- four hours in sound slumberl but that is neither here nor there. What I started out to say was that these anxious professors have very evi- dently never been night nurses, or even student orderlies on night duty. That fact is very evident or they would start movements to have sleep abolished alto- gether, thus enabling night workers to forego the struggle to get even four hours repose while the entire waking world is tramping up and down, telephone bells are ringing, children roller-skating, whistles blowing, automobiles tooting, street cars rattling and clanging, and last but not least, the maid is running the carpet sweeper over the rugs in one's room and emptying the waste paper basket to the accompaniment of much banging and rustling, while some industrious fellow student rings oneis telephone buzzer two or three times by mistake. I believe, under such conditions, even the learned professors would grow weary-eyed, hag- gard and irritable. When the Sun decides to call it a day and goes to bed, relinquishing the duties of lighting the narrow way for mankind to that pale satellite, the moon, these aforementioned night nurses and student orderlies wearily yawn, and arise from their narrow beds falong with the other creatures who do their marketing at night-the bats, the owls, cats, micel and go forth. Rushing to the dining room to partake of a little delectable hash, macaroni Spanish, possibly stew or ilsli Cdepending on the day of the weekl our heroes and heroines thus fortify the inner man for the coming strenuous eight hours fit must be awful where it is twelvej, dash off to the ward where the weary land luckyj day people impa- tiently wait to hand over the reins of power? Then-as the funny papers say-the fun begins. Getting a ward full of patients ready for bed, be they children or adults is no sinecure. The details are too well known to be interesting. Who has hot heard the cry: Nurse, it is nine o'clock and I haventt slept a Wink! Nurse, did the doctor order something to make me sleep '? Nurse, that little Dill you gave me can't have been the right one-I can't seem to sleep! and so on. L Of course there are serious sides to the subjectg there a-re occasions calling for a steady head, quick hands and particularly quick feet, especially when the shadow of the great wings of that celebrated bird, the stork, falls over our Chim- ney! When the shades of night have fallen the Pendulum of Life swings with Page 36