Twin Towers Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 3 - July 1958

              TRIBUTE TO TEN LADIES
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Tribute To Ten Ladies I
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other St. Joseph's Hospital School
of Nursing graduate has been a
member of the Operating Room
staff for the past twelve years.
She returned to St. Joseph's after
the death of her husband and has
found her work in the Operating
Room changing constantly. These
changes are acceptable, however,
beause they are a part of the advances necessary in that busy
department. Mrs. White could, no
doubt, write a book on all the
experiences and changes she has
seen in the past twelve years as
an operating room nurse.
Mrs. Winifred Beers has
more years than the record book
shows. She is a graduate of St.
Anthony's Hospital School of
Nursing of Pendleton, Oregon.
During the time that she has
been at St. Joseph's she says that
the following things have impressed her most:
1. "The development of the
Housekeeping Department from
a haphazard group of untrained
help to the present highly efficient department.
2. The Dietary Department has
developed into an efficient teaching department, and the quality
and variety of the meals have
steadily developed into the best
in the city.
3. There has always been the
problem of finding enough rooms
and beds for the patients. We
still have beds in the halls and
single rooms are doubled in spite
of the addition of the Dower
wing.
4. In all this rapid growth the
patient has always had a feeling
of belonging in 'St. Joe's', although the increased number of
employees has taken away the
closely knit family-like group
that used to work so closely together. They are now very impersonal and change quite
rapidly. You hardly know the
names of employees on other
floors.
5. During this same time, we
have seen the rapid strides in
medicine and the difference in
the way we care for and treat the
patients. We have seen, also, the
improved results of the shorter
convalescence time."
To complete the group of
nurses who have given so much
time and service on St. Joseph's
Second floor, we have Mrs.
Bertha Beal who has been here,
too, much more than the ten
years of the record books. Mrs.
Beal is a St. Joseph's Hospital
School of Nursing graduate, and
she has seen much change and
advance by the hospital as can be
seen in the following notation
made by her.