University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING Sitting Cleft to rightbn M. Reynolds, N. Creaoson, j. Wilson, R. F. McCain, L. Cole A. Hegeons, K. Reick. Standing Cleft to rightbz F. Marsh, G. Skinner, D. Hall, D. Reddy M. Schroeder, M. Horton,j. Sana,j. Allen, B. Derks, S. Donnelly, H. McKenna. Medical-surgical nursing has evolved through the years into an area of instruction which is designed for the study and application of nursing princi- ples in the individualized care of adult patients with medical-surgical health problems. ln the beginning it was not a combined program. ln 1917 the series of lectures listed in the School of Nursing bulletin included Medical Diseases and Surgery along with such topics as Gynecology, Orthopedics, Urine Analysis, Opthalmology, Otolaryngology, Communicable Diseases, Dermatology, and Diseases of the Nervous System and Surgical Anesthesia. Gradually, the numerous little courses were grouped together under two general medical-surgical nursing courses and three special medical-surgical nursing courses taught during the junior year of the program. These, too, were changed and at the present time there is one overall area of instruc- tion for adult medical-surgical nursing with two courses, one in the junior year and the other in the senior year.

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PEDIATRICS Cleft to rightbz C. Bedell, D. J. Sorrels, L. Schabhuttl, B. Britton, j. Heerman, M. Connaughton. In order to give understanding care to children and their families and to assume her role as a health teacher, the student in nursing builds upon previously acquired knowledge of human development and the influences of interactions within the family. She applies her knowledge of the develop- mental stages and tasks through which children must progress and the behavior exhibited during these stages. We believe that as a nurse works with children, and examines her philosophy of life, she may gain a better understanding of herself. Experience in the nursing of children should prepare the student to understand and be able to apply the principles necessary for giving compre- hensive nursing care to sick infants and children. It also should prepare the student for her role as a parent and a contributing member of the community. We believe that each student has her own individuality and that teaching measures should be used which foster her independence and self-direction.

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Psychiatry .ffl ROW l Cleft to rightbz j. Wood, M. Loomis, M. Campbell. ROW 2: j, Dodenhoff, M. Swanson, M. Harmes. The student nurse of today is expected to shape nursing service and education in the future. A dy- namic appreciation of human behavior is basic to the assumption of this task. The undergraduate psychia- tric nursing program is intended to facilitate the development of the student's appreciation of human behavior in terms of the individual, groups, or the treatment milieu as a social system. Moreover, stu- dents are expected to develop awareness of the im- plication of concepts of behavior for nursing's relationship with all walks of life. Public Health Qleft to rightlz S. Price, F. MacDougall, L. Black, C. Hildebrand, F. jennings, j. Brown, M. Cole. The purposes of the public health course are, to help the student become knowledgable about the community and aware of the process by which individuals and groups work toward the improve- ment of community health, to understand each individual and family, separate and collectively, in- fluence the community as the community impinges on the health of individuals, and families, and to ac- quire knowledge and skills in the performance of professional nursing, in an interdisciplinary relation- ship, that helps meet the health needs of the com- munity.