 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL.
This Hospital is the property of the University, and is under the
exclusive control of its Medical Faculty. It was designed and is administered
as a teaching hospital, being so arranged that free use can
be made of its clinical material without in any way distributing or violating
the privacy of other patients.
The buildings are arranged upon the pavilion system, consisting
of a central structure, four stories in height, devoted to the purposes
of administration, and two wings. The administration building contains,
on the main floor, reception and consultation rooms, an amphitheater
and private operating rooms, with sterilizing and anesthetizing
rooms attached, and an X-ray room. The upper floors furnish accommodation
for the nurses of the training school, while the basement
contains the heating plant, laundry, kitchen, etc. From this building
corridors in three stories lead out to the wards. These wards, having
a capacity of about eighteen beds each, are beautifully lighted, have
direct indirect hot-water radiators, and forced ventilation. Opening from
each ward on the east is a large protected porch, of great value to
convalescents. The south wing has been in use for several years; the
new north wing, completed in 1907, gives the Hospital a capacity of
about 100 beds. The equipment throughout is new, and conforms in all
respects to the best usage of the day.
During the past year the number of patients has steadily increased,
and the range of influence of the Hospital has been greatly widened,
patients being received from all parts of the State.
Attention is particularly called to the fact that this hospital, with
its associated dispensary, constitutes a valuable adjunct to the teaching
facilities of the Medical School. The variety of cases presented, and
more especially the opportunities offered for a thorough study of the
individual case, afford unusually satisfactory conditions for clinical instruction.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Hospital Board: Drs. Whitehead, Davis, Watts, Hedges, Macon,
Marshall, Flippin, Goodwin.
Visiting Staff: The visiting staff consists of the Hospital Board
and the Clinical Instructors in the Dispensary.
Director of the Hospital: Dr. Watts.
House Surgeon: Dr. Goodwin.
Internes: Drs. Blackford, Jones, Neff, and Purdum.
Superintendent of Nurses: Miss M. J. Hurdley.
Head Nurse: Miss Sara Apperson.
Pathologists: Dr. Marshall; Dr. Talhimer.
THE DISPENSARY.
CLINICAL INSTRUCTORS.
Dr. Flippin.
Dr. Magruder.
Dr. Hedges.
Dr. Davis.
Dr. Compton.
Dr. Goodwin.
Dr. Rea.
Dr. Nelson.
The Dispensary has been renovated and newly equipped, so that
it now affords the necessary facilities for conducting useful and scientific
clinics. In the past about fifteen hundred cases have been treated
annually, and this number should now increase. The students are
divided into small sections, and are required to examine, record, treat,
and follow each case that comes to the clinic. The work is done under
the close personal supervision of the various instructors, and gives
experience in handling patients which can only be obtained from actual
practice. The work is divided as follows:
| General Medicine, | Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 3 to 5 P. M. |
| General Surgery and Gynecology, | |
| Genito-Urinary, | Tuesday and Thursday, 3 to 5 P. M. |
| Pediatrics; Dermatology; | |
| Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, | Tuesday and Saturday, 3 to 5 P. M. |
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL TRAINING
SCHOOL FOR NURSES.
This school was established in 1901, and its first class was graduated
in June, 1903. Its aim is to give young women, desirous of acquiring
the art of nursing, the same care and thorough training in their calling
which is now afforded young men studying the science of medicine.
Instruction in the primary branches of medicine is given to pupil nurses
by the professors in the Medical Department of the University of Virginia,
while the clinical instructors at the University Hospital give lectures upon
their respective courses. Three years is the required time for graduation,
and all candidates must enter prepared to go through the full course
of instruction and hospital training.
Candidates for the school should apply in their own handwriting to the
Superintendent of Nurses, University Hospital, University, Va. These
applications must be accompanied by certificates of good character, good
health, and sufficient education to profit by the instruction offered. No
candidate under twenty-one years of age, or over thirty-five, will be
received.
| University of Virginia record February, 1911 | |