Williamsport Hospital School of Nursing - Oak Yearbook (Williamsport, PA)

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iiii Selders scrubbing in For ;i deli Heart within, and God overhead! BRING-g-g-g-g-g— What a musical note to wake up to at 5:45 a. m.! We dashed sleepily to he on duty at 6:00 in our first specialty, the Diet Kitchen. Here we prepared and calculated special and diabetic diets. Hours were spent sectioning grapefruit and pureeing vegetables. Our aprons were always decorated with heets and peas resulting from serving the trays. C. D. R. was the next stop. LInder the direction of Mrs. Hall we cleaned and set up trays, packed needles, and learned how to run the sterilizers. While working at the O. R. table folding linen we enjoyed listening to popular tunes on the radio. Next we looked forward to the excitement of the O. R. We first learned the technic of circulating. Our responsibility here was to position the patient, adjust the lights, and keep the doctors and scrub nurses supplied with sterile material. From this we advanced to the position of scrub nurse. Here we were expected to be the doctor ' s right hand man ' ' by preparing the sutures and passing the instruments. We all looked forward to this day but when it arrived we were worried. Will we be able to carry out our duties? Many stories had reached our ears that surgeons would throw instruments and shout at us. 1 hese fears vanished quickly as the surgeons were very understanding and explained surgical procedures for our benefit. Several weeks were spent working 11-7 setting up for the next day ' s cases. A week was spent in the Recovery Room learning the care of the post-operative patient from the time of surgerj to his awakening from anesthesia. Those eight weeks we spent on the seyenth floor were challenging but very worthwhile. Cries of newborns greeted us as we yvorked four weeks in the nursery. Here we learned the care and treatment of the new in- fants. For four weeks in Labor and Delivery we had the thrill of watching life begin. The other four weeks were spent in caring for the postpartum patient. lave 1 human listening for fetal heart tone ml Wagner working in the premie nursery. 25

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Emma Beierle weighing a child upon admission. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. The step into Pediatrics took us into a different world all of its own. A world of tiny children ranging from infants up to twelve years of age, of flying shirttails, of cries (mostly for mommy ), of everything that goes along with childhood days, and each thing added up to a very enjoyable, educational, and inter- esting experience. We were given classes for this course by the Pediatric super- visor and doctors. During that time we had the opportunity to visit day nursery schools for the preschool child whose parents worked. We also attended the class for mentally retarded children and saw how they were taught and trained for doing useful things. The Well Baby Clinic was another spot of interest to us. Here parents who had no private doctor took their children for examina- tions, babyshots, and advice. It was for this clinic each member of our class made a stuffed animal for the children to play with while waiting their turn to see the doctor. Jo Kling reading a nursery rhyme to the before rest hour. children Jackie Burns making a child comfortable. Ginny Schmoh] feeding a child during the supper hour.