Watts School of Nursing - White Cap Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Having a story read by Julia Upchurch and Chery! Andrews makes nursery schoo a little better. While at Child Care Center Nancy Bigelow is trying to persuade the little girl to let her take her temperature. PEDIATRICS 1S -— — children. — eleven weeks of work, worry, and wonder. — nursery school where you watch children grow and learn to play a lot of games. — working at the Child Care Center and watching Dr. Rouse change shirts. — the Intensive Care Nursery where Mrs. Holloway shows her real self. Ward D — giving care to sick children and sometimes becoming deeply involved. — four hours a day of class watching Mrs. Fuller talk with her hands. 25

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24 PEDIATRICS At CP Hospital Cynthia Phelps and Pam Tingen play games with the children. This baby seems to be t he perfect fit for Gene Galyean’s arms. A winning smile and loving touch from Mrs. Fuller may help to sooth a little of the pain. While at Cerebral Palsy Hospital, Pam Tingen kneels down to see what this little fellow has to say.

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Post-clinical Conference — YA WN. Nursing 310 or Leadership is an eleven week course that is taken during the senior year. It involves the learning of team nursing including its advantages and disadvantages. The philosophy of team nursing is that nursing and all its goals are achieved by all the staff working together. The main ob- jective of team nursing is of course, better individualized patient care. In learning to become an efficient and effective leader, the student must accept the responsibility of team leader and of medication nurse. On alternate weeks when the student is team leader she is responsible for assigning staff to patients, taking off doctors orders, making patient rounds and overall working closely with the head nurse’s supervision in assuring better patient care. As medication nurse, the student is surrounded with the task of maintaining all IV's, giving all patient medications for her team as safely as possible, and charting medications as given. The clinical area is challenging for the senior student since she is faced with more responsibility than ever beofre. During the eleven weeks she evolves from a shy and scared student to a responsible and respected leader. Thus, in becoming a professional nurse, this experience is necessary and beneficial to each senior student.