St Lukes Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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wW,, ,m,. Mil W 7' .74 I GAMP PROGRESS page 3 look exactly alike. Why, I'll quit training before I'1l stay up there working a week of late nights all alone. And those uniforms--look more 'like flour sacks to me. .I'll bet one could get a brain tumor from wearing those hideous caps. Three months later--I've finished O. R. and I'm none the worse for the wear. And just between us, ---I feel so much smarter than my S airey Colleagues who have yet to goup there--poor kids. The new probies are here, and, are they a sight. I'1l bet they are much greener than we were. I never knew before that babies were so cute. W hy, who in theworld said they looked alike. Oh, I'm on maternity now--and of course,it's my favorite service. Gee--I said that about surgery too. Between helping mothers dote over their young'uns and trying to sell our dolls to raise money for the class--I'm quite busy. You see, we juniors have to earn money to give the seniors the best prom ever. I thought7A. M. was a terrible time to go on duty but that was before the diet kitchen. When five-thirty rolls around I'd like to heave tim alarm clock miles away. I wish I could ever make cream soup that did not have to be strained for lumps. And those diabetic diets-- a night mare. And I thought I could cook ---- W e won't mention what weight I gained--eleven pounds in six weeks.....And that ain't hay. Sorry I can't go out. You sec, I'm packing to move Yes, It's for pediatrics affiliation. .Oh, I wonder I'll bet it's different--I'll bet the classes are h was over, I decided to become a pediatrics nurse. W to spoil the children--how to talk baby tnlk--and a ' . to Denver General if I'll like it-- rd. Well after it hy I learned how wee mite of the Spanish language--adios, amigo--or I mean adios, Denver General. And another three months literally flew by. The other affiliations, Well, there the Saireys rent to three of the four winds. Some to Colorado General for Psychiatry. Here they were tempted to start tearing their hair and talking to themselves, but confidentially, the institution has never yet kept one of our nurses Our Saireys are tops as far as we are concerned. Here, I shall Stop before the reader gathers the idea that we are a wee mite prejudiced. The girls on Visiting Nursing were confronted with two great problems the corns on their feet--and just what the correct way was to wear those too, too elubby hats. O 3 The remainder of the affiliations were at Denver General for medicine. And do those girls love to spring some long medical to us, the less fortunates who didn't get over ther terms unbeknovn O So another group graduates. More new probies--and we, the Seniors-- thg elders students start our last lap.We had swell summer vacations, but frankly, our minds kept wandering back to St.Luke's and all the swell Sairey cronies we were missing. Maybe we've become exceeding- ly partial to the place. Well,back again,and feelinr swell about it. We even live on the top floors of the nurses' residence now-- we've actually worked our may to the top. S-q'4g:g- W A

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GsHP PROGRESS Page 2 November 20--we finelly get to go on the floors. I cen't believe it-- thet this, our ultimate end timely aim since-entrance is finnlly being fulfilled. HDon't our uniforms look swell--or do they???? Of course, they come to our ankles end below that you see black, black stockings, but they are our very own-ejust'try and take them sway from us. My eoodness, this hospital is so lirge--never knew it before. ,Now, did that senior tell me Uomdn's yes next tc the operating room or to the drug room. Guess I'd better esk someone else. Well, finally, I meds it. Now let's.see--first I get my grey pen and soap end water--our book says plenty of sQnp.ind ,meter to kill virulent bacteria. What was the first step of the cleaning procedure? Where in the world could Miss Gore have found any Idirt on the bed I just cleaned. Back to do it over ngein. Gee--don't' know why I get all thumbs when Miss Blake comes eround.. Gen you imigine--why one of.the patients asked me to-get n nurse for her.- Womder why she thinks lim here. November twenty-third. Hooray' end no classes--no cleaning, no isupervisors -- just hone-lull ,the food you een est, minus, of ,course, the bacon and toast for breakfast--and sissg--seed old sleep.j I think it's bliss... Alas, all the finer things end too soon...But, you know, there was something about the place me missed in spite of it ell.. After the pangs of homesickness were nursed, deer .oldi House of Luke end its Seireys pops into our minds once,ngein,we find ourselves counting the seeks:-even-days and hours until we get our.ceps. I f 'I So.it'vent4-from cleaning to carrying trays, to pnnhnndling, to rub- bing backs--and ,finqlly--yes, today we give'bnths.J WOh I got e big fat msn--he scared me to'denth,He-HI forgot to wash my pntient's leg.H ,HI couldn't find my'tetient when I started to make the bed.U--HIt only took me nn hour end.ten minutespn 7 H , i 4 ' ',Q . Christmas vncwtion--Well it was swell, but we hed sick: patients who needed us, ind besides, me one at home 'apprecimted'the-fnct that we were good nurses other than our fnmilies--soooo--to.put-itfnlnin-like we rere sled to return to our-careers. ' A 'I -'-4: Had We fenfxre or some house'tops to shout from--we would tell it far end wide that today, Mnrch.l, 1940 A. D., we, the Freshmen fnot Probsl of.St. L kc's Hospital receive our caps. No one in the whole class slept the night before, and ectuwlly, was there n patient in the whole hosgitsl who didn't know of the occision?--All of the meet minute de- tails were included. Thus it cnmei We,buried tour old faithful bleck stockings ind donned pretty white ones--which to us couldn't have been better than gold ones. Our 'hardest row had been heed, our biggest battle von--me all kncv thnt'when we said .the pledge. ,We.slso knew that everything had not been'in.vnin.J Yes, it mes worth it, e dozen times so. There 'were several eyes full of dew drops--msny trembling hands--ind e score of groud-jfrents,,brothers and sisters. HYes, our Susie is '-'A ell nn her T1j'bO being the beet nurse ever.W. Xy:qoodneer--n class is graduzting., Surely we cnnvt be Juniors nowhe- but sure 'nuff, we ire. Tho siid tempus doesn't'figit? e - 'I ,- 3urzcry....frcm all reports, I just cin't tackle the things they do up there. The dcctore-will scare me to-death--end all those instruments , ,... 1 . . , 1 - I .-

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GAMP PROGRESS page 4 We're had some grand experiences--and eome end oneeethe sleepy Sunday mornings in-chapel, the weekly laundry--setting up nightly uniforms--H our zany impromptu tensions--our ,continual ,eating jdmborees--tede-- ,nrties-Qcldee picnics--fermdle--and ever eo many mere. ' ' A Ar K - .. ' We hid 3 swell time sneak day. ,Juet our'oWn bunch of Saireyge-and whg nie mere fun than they? - . . ' 'F The day cones--Lny,27. We den our white uniforms--walk down the aisle no get that long qenited diploma land -pin., Tnet'e when the sinking feeling you reid about in books creeps in. Yee, here we leave all our wecunuloied frien6e and experiences of the past three yeare......We leure it--hut ec ehov, we know we wcn't ferret-it. H ONE FROM ONE 'Thine Ere quite distorted, In n maternity, E'en mithemntice ie upset, l I'm euro you'll ngreeg Q For usually one from one ' Le1Vee'notning--this iSTtruG, But in the WMdtU none from one, ' Inririnbly leaves two. 1 v. 1 A THE TONSIL The toneil'e Such 3 little thing, It seems e dirty shane,- For everything that happens It must nlwnye take the blame From bnldneddedneeo to dnndruff, Including ingrewn nnile, The tensile meet come out at once, This etory rarely fnile.. Beyond the lips' vermillifn, And the tnete-rude of the tongue Between pillars of the feucoe Itw birth ind knoll are eurg, The crypte are pathologic, The ntreptecocoue lurks, , There Que exudes in qlobulee, ltr function thus it ehirke. It then ie wetted in qarglee, Sulfinilmnide the beet, 'Tie cnrterizcd-and threatened, Gone ire ith ily? cf TGHT, Poor ti mile tnue dieconrnned, Alive mad purely there, It.mi ht eurrive the treatment hut nrt the,tcneil andre. Hoe itil Belinda bv Frederick E. . f J Keller m. D. i