HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-05-14, Page 9Hospitals and schools are
much alike, the kindergarten
children from Clinton and
Adastral Park learned when they
toured Clinton Hospital last
Tuesday as guests of the
Superintendent of Nursing and
the Hospital Auxiliary.
They both have long halls
with lots of doors and lots of
rooms. The people are different,
because the people in the
hospital rooms are mostly old
people who lie in beds.'People in
schools are young people, who
sit at desks. The halls have
nurses walking in them instead
of teachers. The nurses wear hats
and uniforms, which are short,
but not really short.
This was a remark made by
one little girl, which led to a
discussion as to why nurses
couldn't wear mini uniforms
While on duty. Many
kindergarten children have
mini-skirted mothers, so they
knew why mini skirts wouldn't
be proper. Mothers, did you
know how observant your
children really are?
This observance was evident,
while on the tour, because the
man in the wheel chair was being
taken to his bath bya girl nurse,
Was the young girl really going
to bath the man?
Why do some older women
have whiskers and why could we
not hear the babies cry? Why
were the surgeons scissors bent
and how did he bend them'? Why
did sheets that didn't look dirty
have to be washed and how are
the babies born? Why did the big
boy in the therapy room have a
wax foot and why did Mrs.
Zablocki have to lie on a bed
just to have her arms stretched?
These are a few of the questions
asked during, and after the visit.
Our favourite patients were
the little girl,waiting to have her
hip sewn up, Mrs. Bno, a baby
sitter for several children,
David's Grandma Bernard 'and
Jennie Young, for whom we
sang some of our songs.
We did not like the low
lighting in the halls, but the
patients couldn't sleep if the
lights were too bright. We didn't
like all the different smells but
some places smelled' good—like
fresh paint in the halls and the
cookies in the dining room. We
felt sorry for the man in the
wheel chair.
We liked all the
nurses—especially the one who
let us wind the beds up and
down. If we ever go to the
hospital, we hope she looks after
us, because she was nice and she
had a short skirt. We liked all of
the ladies in the dining room and
especially the "good cooker",
who made the peanut butter
cookies. If we were in hospital,
could the ladies from the
kitchen come up to visit us?
We liked the little cagey thing
where the new babies are put
when they come out of the
mother. Ties mother will be on
the big bed and his new sister
will be put in the little cagey bed
to keep warm.
If we get our tonsils out, we
will be on the bed where the big
tights are. We won't be afraid of
the hospital if we have Lo go
because it's a lot like school and
everyone is nice to little people.
Maybe even we could have
another ride on the elevator.
We say Thank You to
everyone for letting us see the
inside of the hospital and we
hope we didn't bother you while
you worked. We learned that
nurses are "on duty" but the
other people were "at work",
They sure have funny ways of
talking up at the hospital, but
we liked them anyway.
Mrs. D. Williams
'and the kindergarten students
of Clinton Public school
Lynn Bell and her teacher Mrs. Dorothy Etue, of the Air
Marshal Hugh Campbell school were fascinated as they looked
through the nursery windows at the babies.
Kindergarten students from Clinton Public School and Air Marshal Hugh Campbell School at
Adastral Park toured Clinton Public Hospital last Tuesday, Here Lynn Bell of Adastral Park peers
through a microscope in the hospital laboratory while Chad Wiebe and Mrs. Anna Brand, an
employee in the lab, watch.
This was as far as the children got in their look at the sterilized operating room. Miss K. Elliott;
Director of Nursing at the hospital conducted the tour which included a view of the operating
room through the open doors. This group of Adastral Park students includes Sandy Baird (left)
Steven Maclnnis (striped shirt) and Chad Wiebe (facing camera).
and some of the questions after.
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I n unusual tour
A trip to a hospital
For kindergarten pupils
Ali ice Making machine Wasn't the Most sophisticated machine- fascination for many' Of the students. Here Trent ERtey, Graham
the children Saw daring their tour, but it held a certain MadVallY and thris Phillips look into the freezing deep.
Trent Exley had a good laugh when Steven Maclnnis tried on a
surgical mask in the hospital's central supply section.
Then Trent had a chance to pot on a mask himself and other students (fromforeground) Helen
Tanguay, Steve Math-411s, Bert Harper, Chris Phillips, had a 'chance to laugh, but seem to he more
worried that trent might smother, Eileen Johnston helped youngsters With the masks.
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