1. You remember working with nurses who wore caps.
2. You remember nurses (and doctors) sitting at the nurses station drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes while charting.
3. You remember when charting was done (handwritten) in 3 different colors (black or blue for day shift, green for evening shifts, red for night shift).
4. You remember when IV fluids came only in glass bottles.
5. You remember when breast milk wasn't a biohazard. :redlight:
6. You remember when chest tube setups consisted of glass bottles, rubber stoppers, and tubing.
7. You remember when white polyester uniforms were the standard for nurses.
8. You remember when you'd have given your eye teeth for a comfortable pair of nursing shoes (we haven't always been able to wear athletic shoes).
9. You remember when the hospital's top nurse was the director of nursing and not the chief nursing officer.
10. You remember giving lots of IM shots for pre-ops and pain meds.
What else?
HollyVK (with patient care experience going back to 1972) :gandalf:
Yes,I graduated as an LPN in 1976 and made 1 1/2 times as much as I had been as a seamstress--a whopping $3.50 an hour,if I remember right. But,it was all relative-nothing cost as much then as it does now.
I also remember using maalox on pressure sores and also sugar was supposed to help it heal.
I find it funny that it's the students who now wear the white and the nurses who wear the colors. Back in the days, it was the reverse. We couldn't wait to wear white! :chuckle
The picture can't be too old. The caps don't have a dust ruffle on them. I had an instructor in nursing school whose cap had the dust ruffle. Now that is old.
The picture can't be too old. The caps don't have a dust ruffle on them. I had an instructor in nursing school whose cap had the dust ruffle. Now that is old.
I wonder if they still teach this stuff in nursing schools anywhere?
Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN
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In some parts of the US, starting pay is about that right now! (Some areas in southern states).