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

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The Educational Loan Fund HID Class of 1924 hate the honor of starting the educational loan fund for ,0 ing Three members of the Class of 1926 are the first to reap benefits from it I members of .this school. . For this reason we are doubly anxious that the proceeds from oui edi tion of the Cap and Seal will be sufficient to reach the 35,000 mark. The contributions to this fund have been as follows: Graduates ..,................,..............,...........................,.......... ...,.... 55 63.00 Class of 1923 ......., ..... 6 82.06 Class of 1924 ........ ,,... 9 14.90 Class of 1925 .......,... ..... 1 902.29 Class of 1927 ........................... ,, 20.40 Bank Interest to January ...,,,... ,,,,. 1 07,69 553690.34 The money is on interest in the Anglo-California Bank, in care of Mr Percy R. Hennessy, Auditor for San Francisco Department of Public Health. We Wish to 'fhilllk MF- HCHUCSSY for his help and wise counsel regarding the care of this fund and the publication of the Cap and Seal. Page 40

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The Health Program of the Student Nurse HE nurse of today, in any phase of nursing, must be a true missioner of . health. She must not only have health in order to do her work, but she must also teach health by precept and by radiating health herself. Such health requisites for nurses necessitate a carefully planned, consistent program for each student nurse, in terms of her own health, her assignments to duties, her studies, and her recreations. The health program of our students begins even before they start their study of nursing, for they must present a health certificate from their family physician as part of the requirement for admission to the school. Our Medical Director, Dr. Isabella Clinton, has entire charge of the students' health. She also makes all arrangements for students to consult specialists, when in her judgment such services are indicated. She gives each preliminary student a thorough physical examination. Each student is given the Schick test. If the reaction is positive, immunization against diptheria is established by the adminis- tration of toxin-anti-toxin. Each student is also vaccinated and must have either a successful vaccination or two immunity reactions within a reasonable time. Instruction in personal hygiene is given in such a manner that each student is responsible for her own health as a part requirement of her formal class work. Personal hygiene is developed as the first series in a sequence of courses which continue throughout the student's entire period in the school. This sequence of courses being personal hygiene, elementary bacteriology, household sanitation, advanced bacteriology, public sanitation and communicable diseases. Just before each student is capped she has a physical examination. Her acceptance into the school is based in part upon her physical condition. If she is accepted, she receives prophylactic doses of typhoid vaccine. A physical examination is given at the end of the first year, also before and after the Special Services fsurgery, obstetrics and communicable dis- easesj which make heavy demands upon each student. In general, our health program has as its aim: The best possible daily health for each student. The education of groups of nurses who know l the facts involved in the health of individuals and of groups, and who will make those facts function as means for raising health standards in any home or community where our graduates render nursing service. DR. CLINTON Page 39

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MSO This is Surgery OOKING forward with thrills-and chills-of expectation, the average stu- - dent nurse enters upon her operating room training with the feelings similar to that which must grip the traveller, lost in the Swiss Alps in December. The glacial whiteness of the surroundings-the icy glitter ot' crystal lights-not to mention the general bearing of those who preside in this region, all adding to the illusion of lowered temperature. Merely an illu- sion by the way-later experience replacing this illusion with that of being in the land where snow ball Hghts are classed as luxuries! Prior to her admission to the department, the student has probably noticed that the surgery girls are somewhat aloof. They do not have to appear at roll call, nor do they observe the same breakfast hours. Their chins are worn at an angle of slightly higher elevation than ordinary, the bearing suggesting hauteur and superiority. Occasionally one meets them coming down the hall at a rate of speed presumably taken by Paul Revere, and Sheridan on their famous rides. Small wonder the innocent by-stander forms the conclusion that these people are of tremendous importance somewhere! Now as a nurse in surgery pursuing her humble way-hanging smocks and one short, one long, pair of pants in each surgeon's locker, daily discovering hidden sinks to scrub, more buckets to wash, more straps to pick up and restore to their cupboards, more tables to shunt to their proper rooms, millions of in- struments to polish and sacks of gauze to stretch on Sundays-she is to be par- doned if she begins to wonder why people are so impressed with the importance of surgical folks 'and asks herself, how do they get that way? Has she not heard of the miraculous work of Dr. This or That who in per- forming so-me delicate operation with consummate skill, has restored some hu- man being to a happy and useful life? Surely now, she will observe first hand, the brains and talent of the surgical and nursing world at work upon these miracles. But alas! beyond pushing the stools into place for the mighty ones to stand upon, and picking up a bucket full or so of dropped sponges, her impres- sion is likely to be one of many backs at work upon what seems to be a piece of linen. Later when comes promotion to the position of preparing the room for these scenes, and she is privileged to hand instruments around, and thread needles having incredibly small eyes with material apparently much too large to be admitted-the feeling grows that probably in a decade or so, one might work up to a position of useful import- g 1' ,X ance. However, upon seeing the f ,Off operating chief stepping back after several busy hours, survey- ing his work and finding it good, stripping off his gloves and cast- ing them somewhere, flinging his mask into one corner, tossing his headgear into another and per- mitting his smock to drop where the force of gravity takes it, the conviction grows upon her that to really achieve greatness-it is necessary to be born a man! EEIAI-RQQ. 'S 'a - Page 41