Rules, Shmules!!!

[jaenshaesmom]

The following job description was given to floor nurses by a hospital in 1887.

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

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

2.) Maintain an even termperature in you 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. Wash the windows once a week.

4.) The nurse's notes are important in aiding the 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 you 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 pay day 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 without fault for five years will be given an increase of five cents a day, providing there are no hospital debts outstanding.

[Mandarella]

Ahhhhhh, $.05....what I could do with that......:chuckle

The following job description was given to floor nurses by a hospital in 1887.

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

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

2.) Maintain an even termperature in you 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. Wash the windows once a week.

4.) The nurse's notes are important in aiding the 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 you 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 pay day 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 without fault for five years will be given an increase of five cents a day, providing there are no hospital debts outstanding.

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

Whooooooooooooot !!!

See? Now............ don't we have it made? :rotfl: :stone

[suzy253, RN]

This reminds me of some real history we have in our SON...the staff have come across files, letters, pictures from past graduating classes (1st being in the 1890's)...all pictures are framed and along the walls that used to be dorms for the nurses & are now offices. Anyway, there's a posting of one student nurse from the 1930's where she wrote a letter of apology for being outside and smoking and begged forgiveness for her improper behavior, association with men (horrors!) etc. etc. Times have changed!

P.S. Kinda sounds like me when I got called to task by smoking outside the school in a non-smoking designated area. oops. about association with men...I'll let that slide for now. :imbar

[wonderbee, BSN, RN]

What, no sign on bonus?

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

What, no sign on bonus?

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[leslie :-D]

re: #4- no one is going to whittle my nibs!

[nursebedlam]

very interesting,, thanx :)

[Angela Mac]

they even had to make their own pens? wowser.

[veteranRN]

Hey, I just got .05 after working 4 years. We have come along way baby....