St Boniface School of Nursing - Estole Fideles Yearbook (St Boniface, Manitoba Canada)

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ESTHER WIEBE Homdean, Manitoba melodious. . . Mantel-like ball player . . . sporadic diet. . . girl with a golden heart. INTERNATIONAL CODE OF NURSING ETHICS Adopted by the International Council of Nurses The fundamental responsibility of the nurse is threefold: to conserve life, to alleviate suffering, and to promote health. The nurse must maintain at all times the highest standards of nursing care and of professional conduct. The nurse must not only be well prepared to practise but must maintain her knowledge and skill at a consistently high level. The religious beliefs of a patient must be respected. Nurses hold in confidence all personal information entrusted to them. A nurse recognizes not only the responsibilities but the limitations of her, or his, professional functions; recommends or gives medical treatment without medical orders only in emergencies and reports such action to a physician at the earliest possible moment. The nurse is under an obligation to carry out the physician’s orders intelligently and loyally and to refuse to participate in unethical procedures. The nurse sustains confidence in the physician and other members of the health team; incompetence or unethical conduct of associates should be ex¬ posed but only to the proper authority. A nurse is entitled to just remuneration and ac¬ cepts only such compensation as the contact, actual or implied, provides. Nurses do not permit their names to be used in connection with the advertisement of products or with any other form of self advertisement. The nurse co-operates with and maintains har¬ monious relationships with members of other pro¬ fessions and with her, or his, nursing colleagu es. The nurse in private life adheres to standards of personal ethics which reflect credit upon the pro¬ fession. In personal conduct nurses should not knowingly disregard the accepted patterns of behaviour of the community in which they live and work. A nurse should participate and share responsibility with other citizens and other health professions in promoting efforts to meet the health needs of the public — local, state, national and international.

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CAROLYN TOBIN study is only three months late!’ MARSHA TRINDER Winnipeg, Manitoba Go - Go Marsha. . . nonchalant, thinker but you’d never know it. loves that team nursing. HEATHER TOZELAND Winnipeg, Manitoba Hat. . . social enthusiast. . . first clas speler. . . patients’ problems are her concern. . . Grad with all the trimmings. MARLENE VAN TORNHOUT St. Boniface, Manitoba organized confusion. . . conscientious . . . sensitive. . . will try anything once. JUDY TRENHOLM York ton, Saskatchewan the girl with the pout. . . cold hands, warm heart. . . sloppy slippers. . . eyes matched, lenses crossed. HELENA VOTH Manitou, Manitoba Rube. . . great potential. . . gangly gait ... the kind of person whose candle always glows!

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WHERE BANDS ARE GOLD. . Dear Diary, I had a very busy day today! I had one male patient. He had one leg in a CAST and the other in a TENSOR ' BANDAGE!! 1 was hop¬ ing I wouldn’t get a MAN, but now I’m glad I got one. He was very co-operative, but it seemed as if I was getting clumsier by the minute. The bed was not too well made but I’ll do better next time. For the first time I used an INTAKE and OUTPUT sheet and emptied a BEDPAN. . . I had a very interesting day. Y.G.” That was the fall of 1964, when we had to practice giving each other COMPLETE bed baths and hypodermic injections. We worried about daily diaries, toe pleats, neat comers and coffee breaks. I just don’t have time.” And then there were those early morning breakfasts with Miss Martin. . . our efforts to escape initiation. . . Mudge impersonating Mrs. Burrows with a four by four plywood cap. . . weird roommates . . . studying in bathtubs. . . 1030 curfew. . . Blanchard in a cast. . . compulsory study? . . exotic menus in the cafeteria. . . Med-Surg block . . . toothless grins on April Fools and then. . . the long awaited art of stuffing a blue band into a cap. We advanced into second year and the specialties. Remember - realistic clinics on breast feeding. . . blue band blues. . . our class diminishing. . . roast beef and gravy. . . toast and more toast. . . Buzz’s March fourth through snow and gale. . . those nights on 4A and only 20 I.V.’s. . . Sister Fleury’s departure. . . those crash tanning programs or sweltering on the roof. Black bands for our big sisters! What does that YELLOW band really stand for? Hail senior classes with Flossie and Fleidner and Sarah Gamp. . . Are we professionals? . . When will we strike? . . Go to university?? Non-chalent, sophisticated, proficient third years but somewhat worse for wear were inspired to write songs like: She wore cracked shoes with knotted shoe laces A crumpled up bib and man oh man, She wore tom sleeves and faded name tag And a status symbol cap with a big yellow band!” And there were those sociology assignments done after the Blue and Gold banquet. . . gab sessions till small hours of the morning. . . getting up at 7 20 and still going for breakfast. . . the last of the bib and apron set. . . living in the low rent district of residence and loving it? Diamonds. . . Air Force dances. . . Tache Street after dark. , . Fumigating your cap on4C. . . those pine cone hands. . . NLN’s and nervous breakdown’s. . . Thompson the professional skier. . . our friendly internes. . . Mrs. Stovel sugaring O.R. gloves. . . holidays in the snow. . . the GREAT FIRE and now where do we go for FOOD . . . will they” pay us in June. . . R.N.’s and Grad at the Internation¬ al. .. a summer of slavery and anticipation — and then fulfilment of our centennial project. . . WE ARE GRADS OF 1967 Sister C. Gauthier presenting yellow bands Emergency instructor - Mrs. L Pederson 4C - Mrs. S. Buchanan