No, I didn’t get the hat… nor had to wear a girdle or stockings. A quote I read a long time ago and don’t remember who spoke it:” I am capable of saving lives, but also of ending them in quiet and undetectable ways.”This is a picture of my mother’s nurse’s graduation in 1940. She is in the second row.
20 thoughts on “Today marks the day I graduated nurse’s school forty two years ago.”
Congratulations on her graduation. My grandmother put herself through nursing school with the money she made cutting tobacco. She then had a 52 year career as a nurse. Those were hardcore women back then.
You’ve seen a lot of changes…
Congrats. I only made it 20 years before getting forced retired because I wouldn’t get the jab.
I didn’t wear the hat either but I did get a pin from that tech school.
I worked during when AIDS was starting and sure, we didn’t know what it was but used infection control, gowning, masking and sterile procedures when in the room then decontaminate procedures outside the room but we didn’t require any vaccines or any of that BS, we had worse flu seasons then this so called scamdemic and that wasn’t even on the board, sure they offered flu shots but weren’t penalized if you didn’t or were refused work. Had I been told to get the jab, I would have stuck the damn thing in the person ordering me to and made sure I emptied the vial in ’em!
Congratulations!
I spent a minute trying to find you in that picture.
This is a picture of my mother’s nurse’s graduation in 1940.
Wheww! So he’s not wearing heels.
Tough enough being on your feet on hard floors all day, but they had to wear uniform shoes,, not the easiest on their feet shoes,,. It took way too long for the realities of the the job to make the decision about what to wear to do the job. The motivations of the people who pursue such career paths seem to have changed.
There are still some who go that way To Help people, but I’m thinking it was a lot more prevalent a few years ago.
About the beginning of the AIDS thing.. I keep thinking I remember Fauci pushing a vaccine for the people
Living a Risky Lifestyle..
Available in four or five big cities. Followed shortly by an explosion of AIDS cases, in those cities. I’ve searched and can’t find anything to prove that. Do you remember that?
One of those cities was the Portland area, which has a very large homosexual population due to it’s more esoteric and lefty types tolerance for that behavior, as long as they vote democrat…
I am suffering from all those years on hard cement floors. Glad I didn’t have to wear heels, though when I first started I had wear leather black hard shoes, I found the Red Wing Postman shoe were the most comfortable and long wearing. We were so relieved with the decisions we could wear scrubs on the floor instead of whites! If you didn’t have a couple pairs of whites in your employee locker you got to wear soiled whites all shift. With scrubs you went down to supply and grabbed what you needed and could change as you got soiled. Over my scrubs I always wore a white jacket with BIG pockets to carry everything I needed. Nursing sure has changed when I practiced it. Nurse now look at me aghast when I describe what was common practice back then as to what they do today. A modern nurse today has no idea how to properly dress a wound and use of gauze and are afraid of using medical tape to hold and wrap a dressing.
Thank You,, I’ve been wondering if I was having a Mandela memory. So Fauci pushed a vaccine and the disease being vaccinated against exploded.. I wish I could prove it with a search. At least now I’m not wondering if I imagined it.
The changes your age group saw,,,and how less able they are now, Dammitall,,
Red Wings are and have been my daily for over40 years. If nothing else worked out, I was set up for barefoot water skiing. Not just everyone makes a Quadruple E..
42 years ago?
Geez, you must 85-90 years old??
No, I am 65.
That’s your mental age.
Physically, he’s 100.
You just triggered me to do the math on my own Nursing graduation. 44 years ago. I didn’t attend graduation and I didn’t have the money for a pin. The 4 other guys in my class and I had our own graduation party. A lot of the instructors were hostile to the men, but the girls loved us. Like being a rooster in the hen house.
My experience too! I too didn’t go to the graduation, (pin was free) but hell, I didn’t go to my high school graduation and when I got my BSN, nor my MSN/BS degrees, I wasn’t gonna pay to rent a ghey gown and clown hat. I got the diploma, that was all that mattered to me. I got into more trouble when attaining my ASN, I worked at the hospital as the House Orderly directly under the night Nursing supervisor and I knew more stuff than the instructors did. I had to threaten to sue some organizations that had scholarships for female nursing students, except if they offered them to a federal funded community college they had to be offered to all or withdraw any offers. I got the scholarships… I also paid for my schooling with the exceptions of getting Pell Grants, I didn’t want any student loans at all, it is a racket!
That’s a great picture. It’s in amazing condition, too.
Neat to have an heirloom like that in the family.
I’ll bet there wasn’t a single tranny in the bunch! Nary a Karen either!
Happy Anniversary!
My youngest aunt graduated nursing school in 1964 at age 19,she had been double promoted twice in high school. This is back when you can stay in the same Catholic school in Chicago from 1st grade on through high school. And in her case that school had nursing school attached, many of the girl catholic girls schools did back then and also they had extra schooling in case you wanted to join the nunhood
Congratulations!
All those women are so beautiful. What happened to you? Lol
Last year I celebrated (?) 50 years since I started in Food Service. Never made much money, but I always ate!
Does playing doctor qualify you as a medical sort? Asking for my Uncle Virgil.
Personally, IMHO, nurses are the First Sergeants of Medicine. The Doctors, like Officers, think they run things – but experience teaches me otherwise. I ain’t blind.
Congratulations on her graduation. My grandmother put herself through nursing school with the money she made cutting tobacco. She then had a 52 year career as a nurse. Those were hardcore women back then.
You’ve seen a lot of changes…
Congrats. I only made it 20 years before getting forced retired because I wouldn’t get the jab.
I didn’t wear the hat either but I did get a pin from that tech school.
I worked during when AIDS was starting and sure, we didn’t know what it was but used infection control, gowning, masking and sterile procedures when in the room then decontaminate procedures outside the room but we didn’t require any vaccines or any of that BS, we had worse flu seasons then this so called scamdemic and that wasn’t even on the board, sure they offered flu shots but weren’t penalized if you didn’t or were refused work. Had I been told to get the jab, I would have stuck the damn thing in the person ordering me to and made sure I emptied the vial in ’em!
Congratulations!
I spent a minute trying to find you in that picture.
This is a picture of my mother’s nurse’s graduation in 1940.
Wheww! So he’s not wearing heels.
Tough enough being on your feet on hard floors all day, but they had to wear uniform shoes,, not the easiest on their feet shoes,,. It took way too long for the realities of the the job to make the decision about what to wear to do the job. The motivations of the people who pursue such career paths seem to have changed.
There are still some who go that way To Help people, but I’m thinking it was a lot more prevalent a few years ago.
About the beginning of the AIDS thing.. I keep thinking I remember Fauci pushing a vaccine for the people
Living a Risky Lifestyle..
Available in four or five big cities. Followed shortly by an explosion of AIDS cases, in those cities. I’ve searched and can’t find anything to prove that. Do you remember that?
One of those cities was the Portland area, which has a very large homosexual population due to it’s more esoteric and lefty types tolerance for that behavior, as long as they vote democrat…
I am suffering from all those years on hard cement floors. Glad I didn’t have to wear heels, though when I first started I had wear leather black hard shoes, I found the Red Wing Postman shoe were the most comfortable and long wearing. We were so relieved with the decisions we could wear scrubs on the floor instead of whites! If you didn’t have a couple pairs of whites in your employee locker you got to wear soiled whites all shift. With scrubs you went down to supply and grabbed what you needed and could change as you got soiled. Over my scrubs I always wore a white jacket with BIG pockets to carry everything I needed. Nursing sure has changed when I practiced it. Nurse now look at me aghast when I describe what was common practice back then as to what they do today. A modern nurse today has no idea how to properly dress a wound and use of gauze and are afraid of using medical tape to hold and wrap a dressing.
Thank You,, I’ve been wondering if I was having a Mandela memory. So Fauci pushed a vaccine and the disease being vaccinated against exploded.. I wish I could prove it with a search. At least now I’m not wondering if I imagined it.
The changes your age group saw,,,and how less able they are now, Dammitall,,
Red Wings are and have been my daily for over40 years. If nothing else worked out, I was set up for barefoot water skiing. Not just everyone makes a Quadruple E..
42 years ago?
Geez, you must 85-90 years old??
No, I am 65.
That’s your mental age.
Physically, he’s 100.
You just triggered me to do the math on my own Nursing graduation. 44 years ago. I didn’t attend graduation and I didn’t have the money for a pin. The 4 other guys in my class and I had our own graduation party. A lot of the instructors were hostile to the men, but the girls loved us. Like being a rooster in the hen house.
My experience too! I too didn’t go to the graduation, (pin was free) but hell, I didn’t go to my high school graduation and when I got my BSN, nor my MSN/BS degrees, I wasn’t gonna pay to rent a ghey gown and clown hat. I got the diploma, that was all that mattered to me. I got into more trouble when attaining my ASN, I worked at the hospital as the House Orderly directly under the night Nursing supervisor and I knew more stuff than the instructors did. I had to threaten to sue some organizations that had scholarships for female nursing students, except if they offered them to a federal funded community college they had to be offered to all or withdraw any offers. I got the scholarships… I also paid for my schooling with the exceptions of getting Pell Grants, I didn’t want any student loans at all, it is a racket!
That’s a great picture. It’s in amazing condition, too.
Neat to have an heirloom like that in the family.
I’ll bet there wasn’t a single tranny in the bunch! Nary a Karen either!
Happy Anniversary!
My youngest aunt graduated nursing school in 1964 at age 19,she had been double promoted twice in high school. This is back when you can stay in the same Catholic school in Chicago from 1st grade on through high school. And in her case that school had nursing school attached, many of the girl catholic girls schools did back then and also they had extra schooling in case you wanted to join the nunhood
Congratulations!
All those women are so beautiful. What happened to you? Lol
Last year I celebrated (?) 50 years since I started in Food Service. Never made much money, but I always ate!
Does playing doctor qualify you as a medical sort? Asking for my Uncle Virgil.
Personally, IMHO, nurses are the First Sergeants of Medicine. The Doctors, like Officers, think they run things – but experience teaches me otherwise. I ain’t blind.
Agreed, CederQ?
Nurses Get ‘Er Done.
My Mom was a nurse as well