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JWG223 · Feb 19, 2015

Love stuff like this. Got a publish date?

TexMex22 · Feb 19, 2015

Not for this one, but found a similar one from 1955 where the pay had increased to $50-60/week! Woo hoo!

TexMex22 · Feb 19, 2015

Here's another good one:

1887 Nursing Job Description

In addition to caring for your 50 patients, each bedside nurse will follow these regulations:

1. Daily sweep and mop the floors of your ward, dust the patient's furniture and window sills.

2. Maintain an even temperature in your ward by bringing in a scuttle of coal for the day's business.

3. Light is important to observe the patient's condition. Therefore, each day fill kerosene lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks.

4. The nurse's notes are important in aiding your physician's work. Make your pens carefully; you may whittle nibs to your individual taste.

5. 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 she will be off from 12 noon to 2 p.m.

6. Graduate nurses in good standing with the director of nurses will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if you go regularly to church.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. The nurse who performs her labors [and] 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 five cents per day.

(sources: scrubsmag.com)

TexMex22 · Feb 19, 2015

found one more good one.

The evolution of nursing uniforms

Emerson Hospital

1920s

Nurses at Emerson in the 1920s wore long frocks for uniforms, in step with the styles of the time. Back then, the staff, affiliated with the New

England Deaconess Association, originally consisted of two nurses. They nursed out of a sense of religious duty, without pay, assisted by student nurses. The cost of a day's care was $2.50 in a private room and $1.50 in a ward. The average hospital stay was 14 days.

- See more at: The evolution of nursing uniforms - Boston.com