St Joseph Hospital School of Nursing - Retrospect Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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14 Ove (Sane s 16 Nursing VI Judy Bonkoski enters isolation on 4S. Shari Buzzard passes instruments in surgery. This course is entitled Meeting the Humar Needs for Safety et Security. We learned the im. portance of assessing these needs and carrying through with the nursing implementations needec for the specific patient. We all completed our visits to the neuro anc ortho clinics and this helped us to broaden ow horizons. To gain more indepth knowledge we sat in o1 spinal meetings and ortho meetings. With the guidance of our Junior instructors we all completed a term paper on a Nervous Systen disorder. We all had our surgical and recovery room rotation during this time. Many of us passec instruments and circulated. The Styker frame anc Circo-electric bed was another memorable exper ience this semester. The new parking garage is now underway anc studying is a little impossible due to the noise This has been a long semester in which the junior found a variety of diversional and recreationa activity. They gathered together at their favorit weekend night spot to unwind and even get som: exercise by dancing.

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Nursing V Beth Janes monitors I.V. rate. Mrs. Nation explains tachycardia to Junior student, Deb Kim- mel. This course was entitled Meeting Human Needs for Nutrition et Elimination. We all completed our day at VNS. This was a totally different aspect of a nursing career. We visited the client in his home environment and assisted him in his self care. We spent a day at the Fine Arts Building, listen- ing to (Dr.) Fr. Kane speak on the topic of stress. This seminar proved to be both interesting and useful. The hospital continues its renovation with the opening of the new lab, surgery, recovery, pre-op room, and med-surg floors on 4N and 5N. We spent our learning experiences in the clini- cal areas of 3S, 4E, 4S, 5E, and 6E. This semester, besides our term paper, we had a new option to do a project which we found to be a refreshing change of pace. We had a variety of speakers, one about colostomies and another about renal failure. We all received our own colostomy bag to wear for 24 hours. How many of us carried through with this experiment for the whole 24 hours? We also vis- ited the Dialysis Unit at Lutheran Hospital.

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Nursing VII This course is titled meeting the human need for sexual role satisfaction. In this 4 week course the student learns to assess the needs of clients for sexual role satisfaction. The client is looked upon as a whole person of mind and body. The needs stressed are physical as well as emotional. The course is divided into three units of; Optimal Health, Diminished Health, and Depleted Health. Outside sources such as periodicals and speakers are used to give the student a broader outlook on meeting the sex role need and how to deal with it. Nursing VIII This course is titled meeting the human needs through role identity. This is an eight week course where the student works to develop his or her management skills. During the course of the term the student functions as Charge nurse, Medicine nurse, Team leader, and Total patient care cart leader. There is a day of IV team orientation and a one day respiratory care experience. The student also has a chance to work all three hospital shifts to see how each functions. Along with management principles learned, the legal aspects of nursing are dis- cussed and debated.