![]() ![]() Those early computers used punch cards and took up an entire room. Next, he went to Timken on the night shift, retiring in 2004 with 36 years. He’s an outdoorsman and enjoys taking care of his yard and spending time in their woods. She reflects on the many friendships and how the hospital staff were like family.īob Flock graduated Colonel Crawford and later graduated from the Chandler Institute Cleveland in computer programming. ![]() Sue enjoyed the challenge of the hospital accreditation until she retired in 2011 after 44 years nursing. Sue says the thing that ages you is when those babies come back and have their babies.īefore OB closed in 1996, Sue also was working as the specialty center supervisor. She was honored to help design it and imagine how it would look when finished. Next, Phyliss Crall (see her recent story) came in and took over the supervisor job and Sue was in quality improvement. Auchard often came into the nursery, picked up a baby and rocked it a tender memory. Monitors were used for moms and babies, but Sue would say "look at the mom and baby first, not the monitor." Dr. Sue said it was well known to the other nurses that if you can’t find anything to do, don’t tell Sue - she will find something. When Sue started her family, she worked on the med/surgical floor for several years and then returned to OB and when Mary Kay retired, Sue became supervisor. Early in 1968, Sue began working on the OB floor on two-week rotated shifts with Mary Kay West and Evie Culver. Sue met her future husband, Bob Flock, at Colonel Crawford, where he enjoyed sports. The staff also covered the emergency room. Whenever the buzzer rang, a nurse went down and covered the many different situations. As the hospital additions were being added, it all blended together where things were located. Sue worked on the medical floor, then in surgery. In the '60s the Bucyrus ER was located down in the “pit” and the second floor was a med and surgical floor. ![]() Rita’s in 1967, Sue began working at Bucyrus Hospital full time when Magdalene Margraff was director of nursing. Each specialty area offered a lot of different experiences. In the late '60s they didn’t have an ICU, computers or monitors. Sue remembers the first monitoring it looked like an old-fashioned floor model radio with a teeny screen and tracing monitors.Īfter graduation from St. ![]()
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