What's a chat about the old days without a few visuals? *LOL*
L&D 1950's
Notice nurse stands dead in front of camera blocking total view of patient for modesty and privacy.
L&D 1970's
Only twenty years later and things seem *more* uptight than before. Leather restraints? Why not bring out a piece of wood for laboring mom to be to bite down upon.
Notice lots of moving about of mother; labor room to delivery room, then to recovery and finally her own room. Those nurses must have built up some strong arm and leg muscles pushing all those beds and bassinettes all day. Notice as well the new mother is not only waited on hand and foot, but has little interaction with her baby. Nurse even dresses, swaddles and carries the newborn for discharge.
Introducing Pampers!
Truly revolutionary. *LOL* No more pins, heavy soaked and soiled diapers that often leaked
Early Pampers were not that much different than Chux.
Notice in the 1970's clip it is a nurse offering the "laughing gas" to the woman in labor.
Now for the COB query: how many recall using a fetal stethoscope or Pinard horn?
Crank beds! Anyone besides me have scars on their shins from someone not putting the handle back in?
Oh, yeah! And I still have some crank beds in home care.
When my Mom broke her ankle and was in the nursing home (2004) all the beds were crank. Medicare wouldn't pay for an electric bed, because - as we all know - there was always an nursing tech who would raise or lower the hear of the bed as needed, whenever needed.
Also, no bed could have rails.
My Mom was terrified that she would fall out of the bed when they turned her. She wasn't a small lady. And - because of Post Polio Syndrome - she couldn't use her arms much.
I brought in an electric bed, with the side-rails that they didn't like. Oh well.
Back in the day, all beds had side-rails, and most patients in wheelchairs had lap restraints. Restraints were so common. I'm glad we've pulled away from that.
I can't remember the name.. A sticky strip you would place on either side of a wound that needed frequent changing, you would then "lace" the two strips together, keeping the gauze etc applied over the wound intact. It would save pulling tape off the skin every time the drsg needed to be changed.
they were the best for those wounds that needed frequent changing and saved the pts skin so much! Of course, I guess now we just use VAC therapy on this type of wound, but I still miss them.
They still use these if they're doing surgical procedures that might cause a plastic trach to melt (i.e. laser surgery for subglottic stenosis). Except, rarely, those may ignite with the O2 and the laser.
I still feel those were so much cleaner! I worked at a chronic hospital and each patient had two ... One in, one autoclave do/sterile packaged & hanging above the bed ready to put in any time. As soon as it was changed the old one got sterilized and back in place.
Ahh - I recognize that picture. They were observing surgery from that vantage point. The Probationers down in front, where they can get the best view; then their slightly older sisters who have already made it through the Probationary period, and have earned their caps and apron bibs, and the striped student nurse uniform. And so on, up the ranks and the seats.
I think that one appeared on the cover of a 1938 issue of Life Magazine! There was an article inside regarding the "Nurses Training Program" of the hospital back then, IIRC. I think I may have that one, since I collect Life Magazine issues that deal with subjects of which I have an interest. Nursing being primary! I have several that I could afford at the time.
I still feel those were so much cleaner! I worked at a chronic hospital and each patient had two ... One in, one autoclave do/sterile packaged & hanging above the bed ready to put in any time. As soon as it was changed the old one got sterilized and back in place.
Autoclave?
Since we are discussing the old days, important to mention nurses staffed/ran central sterile supply and did the autoclaving and so forth.
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Notice in the 1970's clip it is a nurse offering the "laughing gas" to the woman in labor.
Now for the COB query: how many recall using a fetal stethoscope or Pinard horn?