Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Pledge 1965: 75th Anniversary
From the University Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Bulletin, 1925, p. 8-10.
As the school grew, we heard that a new home for the nurses was to be built. We were to receive a month, and furnish our own uniforms and books. After the new home was completed, we had more room and more comforts. The chapel was made into a sitting room, where occasionally we had music, or a dance, and the Little Lady In White would occasionally join in the merry-making.
From the University Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Bulletin, 1925, p. 11.
Entering nursing was self-sacrifice and self-denial, giving up of one's home and devoting your life to the service of others.
Nurse-doctor relationship was to be strictly professional. Nurses were forbidden to have social conversation with medical students or doctors and to see them after hours was just out of the question. However, twenty graduated with me and four married doctors. Even the telephone conversations were censored when the coding was discovered. Meant same old meeting place. Then there was trusty Wilbur, a night orderly who conveyed notes for nurses and doctors. One night he was hailed by the medical superintendent as he made rounds, and asked Wilbur where he was going. I was asked to get some specimen bottles from the lab. Excuse me, Doctor, I have to cough. He turned around and coughed and swallowed the note. Paper eater Wilbur saved the nurse's neck and the incident te mained a standing joke for some time. The unfortunate nurse to be caught was punished by a night duty stretch, special duty, or suspension of late leaves.
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