NURSES' DUTIES ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

[摘要] The following job description was given to floor nurses by a hospital in 1887:In addition to caring for your fifty patients, each 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 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 earning 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.

[学科分类] 儿科学