Nursing Uniform of the Past and Present
The evolution of nursing uniforms is really interesting. It is closely linked to the status of women in society and the autonomy of nurses.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act
Day in the life.....
From Nursing Through the Generations
“In addition to caring for your 50 patients, each nurse will follow these regulations:
"Duties of the Floor Nurse- 1887." MCCC Faculty & Staff Web Pages. Web. 04 Feb. 2011.
“In addition to caring for your 50 patients, each nurse will follow these regulations:
- Daily sweep and mop the floors of your ward; dust the patients’ furniture and window sills.
- Maintain an even temperature in your ward by bringing in a scuttle of coal for the day’s business.
- Light is important to observe the patient’s condition; therefore, each day fill kerosene lamps, clean chimneys, and trim wicks. Wash windows once a week.
- The nurse’s notes are important in aiding the physician’s work. Make your pens carefully.You may whittle nibs to your individual taste.
- Each nurse on day duty will report every day at 7 a.m. and leave at 8 p.m., except on the Sabbath on which day you will be off from noon to 2 p.m.
- Graduate nurses in good standing with the director of nurses will be given an evening off
each week if you go regularly to church. - Each nurse should lay aside from each payday a goodly sum of her earnings for her benefits during her declining years, so that she will not become a burden. For example, if you earn $30 a month, you should set aside $15.
- Any nurse who smokes, uses liquor in any form, gets her hair done at a beauty shop, or frequents dance halls will give the director of nurses good reason to suspect her worth, intentions, and integrity.
- The nurse who performs her labors, serves her patients and doctors faithfully and without fault for a period of five years will be given an increase by the hospital administration of 5 cents a day, providing there are no hospital debts that are outstanding.”14
Nursing Quotations
Woman is an instinctive nurse, taught by
Mother Nature. The nurse has always been a necessity, thus lacked social
status. In primitive times she was a slave, and in the civilized era a
domestic. Overlooked in the plans of legislators, and forgotten in the curricula
of pedagogues, she was left without protection and remained without education.
She was not an artisan who could obtain the help of a hereditary guild; there
was no Hanseatic League for nurses. Drawn from the nameless and numberless army
of poverty, the nurse worked as a menial and obeyed as a servant. Denied the
dignity of a trade, a devoid of professional ethics, she could not rise above
the degradation of her environment. It never occurred to the Aristotles of the
past that it would be safer for the public welfare if nurses were educated
instead of lawyers. The untrained nurse is as old as the human race; the
trained nurse is a recent discovery. The distinction between the two is a sharp
commentary on the follies and prejudices of mankind.
- VICTOR ROBINSON
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