A question for the COBs

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Does anyone know if nursing schools were using Florence Nightingale's book Notes on Nursing during the 1930s and 40s?

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Good lord sassyass, how Crusty do you think we are?

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
Good lord sassyass, how Crusty do you think we are?

Well, a nurse who would have graduated in the 40s, assuming directly out of high school, would be about 85-95. Where's that thread about the oldest practicing nurse? And I know it's not you, so there's somebody out there crustier than us.

Hooray for the search bar! Oldest Practicing Nurse? And since the nurse in that OP is 95, it's possible someone would know...

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
Good lord sassyass, how Crusty do you think we are?

OMG I know right?! For crap sake I'm retiring at a perfectly respectable 62 years old. :D

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Well, a nurse who would have graduated in the 40s, assuming directly out of high school, would be about 85-95. Where's that thread about the oldest practicing nurse? And I know it's not you, so there's somebody out there crustier than us.

I doubt she's posting here and is going to see this thread.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

And "COB" refers less to age, and more about time spent in nursing. There are some COBs who are younger than you, OP.

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None of my grandmother's books, that I own, are not Flo's.

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None of my grandmother's books, that I own, are not Flo's.

That is so cool! I love, love, LOVE old medical books. I've begun to collect them. They seem to be needles in antique store hay stacks. My most recent is "Yourself and Your Body", autographed by author Wilfred Grenfell, who turns out to be a very awesome man and doctor. The book is written in conversational form, teaching kids about the body in detail.

If you're ever feeling bored, check out the DSM-I, which you can probably access for free on Google.

Sorry for the mini hijack. :)

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That is so cool! I love, love, LOVE old medical books. I've begun to collect them. They seem to be needles in antique store hay stacks. My most recent is "Yourself and Your Body", autographed by author Wilfred Grenfell, who turns out to be a very awesome man and doctor. The book is written in conversational form, teaching kids about the body in detail.

If you're ever feeling bored, check out the DSM-I, which you can probably access for free on Google.

Sorry for the mini hijack. :)

This sounds like it could be interesting. I may start used bookstore crawling. As long as I have my rescue inhaler handy, I should be fine lol.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

OK - so I am not crusty enough to have actually met Flo. . .

But my MSN program included a review of nursing history - and Flo's 'Notes' was one of the sources included.

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Specializes in Heme Onc.

You could be married and in nursing school, as my grandmother was. I have all of her old texts, and many of them are Florrie's.

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My grandma, who was married fresh out of high school, children born at 19, 21, 25, and 27, became (I think????) an LPN in the 50s, while married. She decided to leave her husband (who was a horrible person), realized she needed to be an RN to afford it, and went back to school in a program designed for women with children (classroom and clinical hours were structured around school days and hours typically worked by husbands). That was in the early 70s.

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