DISPLAY BY NURSES

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31784, 14 September 1968, Page 2

DISPLAY BY NURSES

Parents* day at the preliminary school of the Christchurch School of Nursing on Friday gave mothers, and a few fathers, an insight into the knowledge absorbed by their daughters during their first three months of training.

The young trainee nurses gave demonstrations of various forms of practical nursing to illustrate the training they have been given as preparation for their first ward duties.

Two nurses washed, set and dried a “patient’s” hair, while another pair showed the correct way to lift and turn a patient Two types of bedmaking were displayed. One type was for an operation, and the other for a fracture case. In the latter, extra padding, divided into four sections, was placed over the mattress to keep the patients straight and facilitate nursing care. BANDAGING SHOWN

Knees, ankles, fingers, heads, and feet were bandaged in a display which attracted lively interest from

onlookers. The finished result was both professional and realistic. Although the 58 class members concentrated mainly on theory, they were also taught to administer certain injecand apply resuscitation. The section devoted to injections showed entries for a patient’s treatment, charts illustrating injection methods, and types of needles and syringes. Nurses were on hand

to give practical demonstrations. Interest was also shown in cardiac arrest massage, demonstrated on a training model simulating real-life conditions. Pharmacology was displayed in the lecture room. Charts showed methods of administering drugs, recognition of insular coma in diabetics, and steps to drug addiction. The library featured an isolation room in miniature, and in one corner of the library there were a skeleton and charts tracing the respiratory, digestive, and kidney systems lining the walls. Dressed dolls showed the history of nursing from the primitive medicine man, to the Irish Sisters of Mercy, Florence Nightingale, and the modern nurse.