The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 06, 1913, Image 6
HOSPITAL PLANNING IS THIS
WOMAN'S UNIQUE PROFESSION
Another wotuau has lnv*u4ed *
new profession. Miss M. 10. McCal*
mpnt, a Brooklyn girl uuU a trained
nurs", became in the course of her
professional work Superintendent of
the Civil Hospital In Manila, and
later Chief of the Division of Hospi
tal Const ruction and Equipment of
tbo Uureuu of Health for the 1'hlU
Ippine Islands. ,j
Now Miss McCalmont writes her*
self down at* "Hospital Specialist an
Consultant/' with officea in Waft
Street, and so large h list of pro
fessional engagements that the need
of more women to take up <t,he pro
fcsslon is conclusively shown.
Miss MeCalmont's idea grew out
of the conditions she met in the
course of her nursing work. Hbe
found hospitals where initial mis
takes iu construction and equipment
hud cost many thousands of dollars
to correct; others where inexcusable
omissloiiH had added hundreds of
dollars monthly to the cost of main
tenance. She found hospital where
the comfort and happiness of pa
HontH had been so disregarded In
planning the building that their re
covery was appreciably retarded
4 hereby.
She studied and ' analyzed the
usual method of building and equip
ping a hospital and found it to be
such as would nover bo tolerated in
the case of a business bouse or a
manufacturing plant. Yet efficiency
and economy aro as Important in
earing for the sick and Injured as
iu making ladles' underwear or the
building of a locomotive.
Usually when a new hospital 1h
lo be built or an old one is to be
enlarged, a sum of money i? secur
ed or pledged, the locution decided
upon and an architect called in to
make (he plans. I*erHap8 the archi
tect has, studied hospital nrchitectur
and perhaps not Probably he know
all about the durability of floors;
he Is expert on tho subject of round
ed corners and angles, flush sur?
faces, sanitary plumbing and vent tin
tion. lie designs an exterior of
appropriate dignity and beauty, ar
ranges for tho greatest possible econ
omy of space, and provides for air
and light.'
So far, so good. The next step
is the equipment. And then Jt is
often found that, because the archi
tect knows nothing of hospital equip
ment or management ho lias made
mistakes which are morn or le#s s?
rlous. Houio t It in gs must bo chang
ed a i great oxponso and perhaps
never wholly Batisfuctoriiy ; others
uiay bo vhidlyjrftiL but at the cost of
efficiency hu<1 of actual dollar* and
cents for maintenance.
(t in a commonplace nowaday**
thi*4 inititil money cont in only a
part of the actual cost of any pro
ject. If a nurse Iiuh to walk the
length of a long corridor to fill a
bantu every ^iine she glv?Hi it bed
bath, because the faucet in the Bta
tlonary bowl lu placed too low to
admit of filling tbo basin, tbo hos
pltal maintenance 1b Increased by
just bo much. It niUBt bo remem
bered that she 1b one of many of
tbo nurses, that the two minutes
IobI: In tblB one oporation represents
only a fraction of the time t)iat
may bo Squandered in Blniliar ways.
This Is not a theoretical instance,
but an actual olio; a condition which
Miss McCaimont - encountered in a
hospital bIio recently reorganized.
Though it 1b conceded that hand
washing Bhould be done under run
ning water whenever possible, the
lavatories in the private rooms had
spring faucets, also placed too low j
to admit of filling pitchera or basins j
with separate faucets for hot and
cold water. They were changed to
one faucet, with two cocks, by which
the heat of the water could be reg
ulated, and placed high enough no
that receptacles could be filled from
them.
In one hospital just, completed it
was found that the dumb waiters
were too small to hold tho standard
food trays; iu another all the re
frigerators had been Initialled with
out drip paps; in nt i 1 1 another the
kitchen was built without a chlm
ney, tho operating room was so plac
ed 'that it u windows gave upon a
brick wall, and an expensive alter
ation and building of skylights bad
to be done before It could be used.
Still another hospital with exten
ttlvo plumbing had;, no Hink closets
for the filling of scrubbing pails or
storage of brooms and mops. A
long journey to a basement was ne
cessary In connection with every bitj
of the dally cleaning of the wards,
i Again, a large laundry bad no sort
I lug or distributing room, and the
i ironing had to be stopped while the
tables were used for tho sorting.
Hospitals with no sound - proof
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rooniB, w hore by the distressful
sounds of delirium, Buffering, or
death can ho kept from other p*?- I
j
tients, are too common to he re
markable. The absence of guarded j
windows Is responsible for most of j
the cases of suicide or accidental i
falla from windows. In children's !
wards unguarded radiators are a j
constant menace; a young child wan
burned to death on one only re
cently.
The architect may answer to all
thiB that his Job has to do with
tho building and hot with the equip
ment or management of the hospi
tal. Ml?s McCalmont's contention is
that the two should go hand in hand,
? that formerly >re have put the
cart before the liorne. . Wg build \
the hospital, then we equip it, and !
lastly we plan, our personnel and |
make our budget?and too often we !
are appalled at the number of mis
fits that have to be- adjusted. Not
infrequently it is found that funds
are Inadequate for equipment and
maintenance.
The plan proposed by this youn^
woman and now being put into op
eration by "tier is to work from the
beginning with architects, doctor
and trustees. Before a stone is
laid ? or, rather, before a plan is ap
proved?a complete list of equip
ment should be made, number and
character of staff decided upon, a
tentative schedule of routine, and
a tentative budget drawn up. It is
usual <o consult the doctors, and
fairly satisfactory operating rooms
aru tin* result. But who over
thought of consulting the superin
! teudent of nurses or the store-keep
er or the head of the laundry de
partment? And yet it is only an
actual worker who knows the actual
needs.
"Would it not tie hs well to ask
a dletist what is to go into her
diet kitchen," says Miss McCalmont,
"and plan accordingly, rather than
label a four walled room 'diet kitch
en* and attempt to place the mani
fold necessities there after the
building is completed? It would
seem that such lack of co-operation
is largely responsible for a not un
usual arrangement of gas stove and
j ice-box side by side, with a neces
sary serving table or drain board
| for the sink omitted altogether for
want of room! Who but the dlet
ist would be likely to think of the
j convenience of having her meat
blocks placed near the cold storage,
a"d her kitchen so arranged that
food trucks might be expeditiously
^-loaded without disturbing the per
sonnel or working machinery of the
| kitchen itself?
i "Can not the pharmacist best tell
i of arrangements which would fa
cilitate his work, of the most con
i venient relation of sinks, working ta
bles, table machines, dispensing
j counters, etc.? Would it not be bet
ter to , allow him a voice in such
i matters, rather than have them ar
ranged by persons who could not
bo expected to have a working
knowledge of the facts, and, inciden
tally, would never have to suffer of
the inconvenience due lo this ignor
ance?
'If a superintendent of nurses
were consulted in the matter of a
nurses' home, is it not probable that
night n irses would be provided wjth
sound proof rooms located in a sec
tion of the buildings furthest re
moved from dining rooms, lecture
rooms, baths, etc.?
; "The doctors ' always have ade
quate dressing rooms, lockers, show- |
er baths, etc., in an operating pavil-,
ion, while a similar provision ' is
seldom if ever made for nurses. Yet
nurses nufy be perspiring thru two
or three operations to the doctor's
one 5ind would have even greater
appreciation of a proper dressing
room and shower than he. If the
chief operating room nurse were ask
ed for suggestions in^ the planning
of an operating pavilion, is it not
probable that .she would ask that -
these things be provided for her
staff as well as for the doctors?"
And because such consultation
with the actual incumbents is not al
ways feasible, perhaps not wholly
desirable, Miss McCalmont has made
of hersetf a specialist in all these
lines. She has been an actual work
er in hospitals in many capacities.
She has served her apprenticeship
as a nurse. She has worked up to
the highest of staff positions. And
pn the basis of all that, she has
studied efficiency and standardiza
tion as it applies to her chosen call
ing. The result is a professional
position as yet unique. That other
women will follow her is only a
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(Schedules effective April 27th,
1913. Eastern standard time.)
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No. 4 ? 6:47 a. m. #
No. 3 6 ? 8:55 a. m., New train, "v
; No. 18 ? 5:05 p. m.
No. 2 ? 7:31 p. m.
Southbound.
No. 1 ? 1 1:05 a. m.
No. 17 ? 10:37 .a. m.
No. 3 5 ? 6:48 p. m., New train.
No. 3 ? 11:15 p. m.
Trains 17, 18, 15, 36 local trains
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