Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-07

1922 at the Baekus hospital training
 school for nurses were held Tuesday ev-
 enins at the Osgood Memorial where an
 audience of 150 listened with deep in terest to an inspiring address by Dr. David R. Lyman, head of the Gaylord
 farm sanatoriufn, W'allingford. and gave Ia hearty applause to the eight graduates as they received their dipio- mas.
 The graduating class numbered Miss
 Irene L. Neville, Newport, R. l.: Miss
 Saddle M. Jacobs, Sydney, Nova Scotia !;
 Miss Harriet Newef Albie, Putnam.
 Conn. Miss Ruth I. Cooper, Central
 Village. Conn. Miss Bertha I. Danin, ! Newport, R. l.; Miss Margaret V.
 Royal Packer, Conn. Miss Phyllis Sin
 Chandler, Leonlinster, Mass.
 In their regulation nurses costumes
 they marched into the room preceding the twenty-one student nurses now in the school and the entire body had seats at the front of the room.
 The exercises, at which Henry A.
 Tirrell, president of the executive board of the hospital presided, opened with A selection by an orchestra consisting | Of Miss Elizabeth Lane, violin, John M
 Swahn, cornet John Kukla, clarinet 1 Nicholas Spellnaan. plano. which was followed by prayer by Rev. Dr. David 4. Pitt of the Central Baptist church | and tenor solo, The Florian's Song l (Godard) by George A. Turner, with Miss Dorothy Turner accompantst. MT. Tirrell introduced Dr. Lyman al one who was recognized as master 1T
 his profession and spoke of the great
 privilege that the school was enjoying 1T
 having him here to make the address to the graduating nurses.
 ] Dr. Lyman remarked at the opening of his talk that he had had personal ex perience of the value of the nursing pro fession as he had been 'hemstitched" or one or two occasions and he owed ] whatever of success he had been ablt
 to make of his life to the nursing thai 1 had kept him alive when the doctors had said his hours were numbered.
 1 Three professions-the law the min 1 istry and medicine-bring into the clos est touch with human life and of these medicine iabors under the least handi ! cap. Medicine as a professional is on' thing that satisfies the restless spirit il people to do something to make th' l world little better for our having fiveC 1 in it. The nurse, if she wants fields O work, pastures new, has three fields be 1 fore her, of which research work ma! be mentioned first. The research sid Of medicine has marked all the remark able advance in the last 50 years an: the laboratory is as open to the nurs as 1t is to the physician. If your ben itakes you into the field of public vel fare work, a great opportunity is be fore you, What would we do without tn public health nurse? The health of whoi communities may be in her hands. Tn work of the school nurse furnishes an Iother tremendously important opportu nity for constructive work against de fective physical bodies that would lea 1 to defective mental conditions and re suit in bad citizens. The same hold true with the industrial nurse. who doe an enormous part in keeping the wheel Of industry moving smoothly. And thel there is the personal side in which nurs 1 ing first started. It really the nurs many times that decides whether the pa ] tient lives or dies.
 1 Dr. Lyman spoke of this motto fo the nurse: Cure sometimes, relief often comfort always; and went on to speal of the qualities of 8 real nurse.
 l He spoke first of love of work, whicl he said did not mean that the nurse wa | to be a combination of nurse, scrub wo man. cook and nAighDorhood gossip 1 but the true nurse would understant ! that there Is nothing belittling in an. profession to tackle any job on tn green earth to put your work throug ! if there were no one else to do that jot Then tact, and 8 lot of 1t would b needed, the power to make people do tn 1 things they ought to do but don't wan to do Self control is another dualit, and the good nurse must also learn t keep her mouth shut for in her asso citation with the patient she learns man I things that nobody else ever hears l Faith is an absolute essential to tn biggest work nurse can do, and whel the valley of the shadow draws near 0 l the nurse can be the kindly light tha leads she then reaches the highest poin
 in her profession.
 l Dr. Lyman also mentioned hope whic will do wonders and charity of wh4c the nurse needs to have a large share t remember that the patient is a sick per son and not responsible for the vagarie that he is sure to display.
 One other thing pr. Lyman mentione
 in closing when he spoke of the nurse care for her own health. The nurs can't do good work on poor health an he advised against anY2 attempt to mak a long distance record for continuou nursing service. It will wreck the bes
 nurse that ever lived. Your duty t