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

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Municipal Ward 'CSM A Municipal Accident Ward is maintained where cases of accident for which the City is liable are treated. In this ward the Resident and Nursing Staff are also cared for when ill. Total patients treated 11924-19255, 288. I Page 7 8

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Childrens Ward UR Pediatric Department includes all patients ranging from the age of a few hours to twelve years and are all types of cases except those suffering gll ' from the so-called communicable diseasesf' The Visiting Staff in this ward has a rotating service. The first six months of the year the University of California service has charge. The second six months the ward is under the Stanford medical service. The visiting chiefs make rounds each day. The main ward is divided into four cubicles and two ward rooms. These ward rooms are used to isolate new patients. Incoming children are placed in these rooms until such time as a report can be made on their throat cultures. One cubicle of seven beds is used as a Nursery. Another cubicle is used for children under four years and yet another is used for boys over four years old. Adjoining the ward is a sun porch and a screen porch, where patients are given sun treatments. Each student nurse spends at least two months in the Childrenis Ward. The service is divided into two weeks of ward duty, two weeks of treatments, two weeks of nursery, and two weeks of night duty. A teacher, who is employed by the city, takes care of the children's school work while they are in the hospital. She also plans holiday festivities for the children. Page 77

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Psychopathic Ward NE of the most recent additions to our Hospital is VVard R, the Psycho- pathic VVard. Due to the pressing need for a Ward in which to care for psychopathic patients, Ward R was opened September 9, 1924. mitted in the last year. Up to Mal ch 93, 1926, there have been 655 patients, 467 having been ad- Out of the 9,893 total admissions to the Hospital for the year, 467 are patients for the Psychiatry Ward. This means that one out of every twenty is sent to Ward R. The purpose of the Ward is to furnish a place for the observation and care of patients who are mentally ill. Patients gain admission by coming in voluntarily, being sent by the courts on a warrant for examination, by being transferred in case of necessity from one of the city prisons, or from some other part of the hospital. The ward is divided into two parts: a Ments and a VVomen's Ward, the capac- ity being fifteen beds for men and sixteen beds for women, eight of the latter being private rooms. There is adequate provision for hydrotherapy in addition to the same facili- ties for treatment as in the Medical and Surgical Wards. Vigilant care of the patients is necessary. It is, of necessity, a locked ward. , Ward R offers an opportunity, unusual in most hospitals, for student nurses to gain some of the fundamental principles involved in the scientillc care of psychopathic patients. Page 79