where was allnurses.com when...

OH that poster is ME!!! almost.

Lol, another older nurse and i were recently trading "Remember when..." stories, and were considering starting a thread on them,
if only to horrify the younger nurses with things we USED TO think were great ideas, ha ha!!!

We have had several "Remember When" nursing threads over the years. Enjoy these gems:




2004: So what WAS nursing like in the "good old days"?

2005: The Bad Old Days

2008: Remember the Geri-Chair?

2010: Nursing the old fashioned way

2012: Article: "The Good Ol' Days!"

I love this. LOL I was deprived of AN in my childhood. HA HA HA

Yes we do have other "Remember when......" threads.

The most recent one is an article called Nursing: Then and Now. Be sure to stop by that thread and add your stories from the past.

I wish I had this website when I started out. I would not have felt so alone with my struggles early in my career.

NO kidding right? Remember trying to mkae head or tails out of those 10, page hand written care plans...... Looking up every drug in 3 different books.....man what I could have done with the internet!!!! The HOURS and HOURS at the library......I felt I should have moved in.....

There are pros and cons to everything. My daughter sent a letter in the "real mail" and thought it was sooo cool. She had to do a report and of course used the internet vs. encyclopedia. Technology is nice, but it's also sad to see the old way of doing things become extinct.

We lived @ school--the library was on the 1st floor, I was on the 5th. And we could never miss a class or clinicals due to the weather--the dorm was connected to the hospital via a tunnel!

I just can't believe we are the age of the nurses, that I, as a very young nurse was absolutely terrified of. Our nightime nurse house officer wore a cape, and I thought if she arched her eyebrow in my direction she was going to march down the hall and fire me! Why? It didn't matter, she was just going to fire me, that's all!

It just cracks me up to think that odds are if there had been an allnurses back then she may have got online and cut up and had fun like we do and <<gasp>> some of us (though not me) are DONs! She may have even mentioned a 3 to 11 nurse who always looked terrified when all I ever said to her was "can you work a double tonight?"(that is all she ever said to me). The perspective of time reveals so much. . .

Here's another throwback thread with some great stuff in it. My favorite was the way the UK nurses would place a flower in the hands of the deceased as part of post-mortem care .

. .You know you're Old School when...

Here's another good thread on changes in nursing over the years:

How Has Nursing Changed Since You Were Pinned?