The Museum of Nursing History, Inc.

While looking for information on visiting nurses, I came across this interesting website. Enjoy the stories and pictures about nurses working during the 1918 pandemic. http://librarycompany.org/dejavu/part5.html

Typically, we celebrate the nurses who gave vaccines-today, we celebrate the nurse who received the vaccine to inspire everyone to take the vaccine. It is our way out of this pandemic crisis. https://www.nytimes.com//us-covid-vaccine-first-sandra-lin

Take a look at this 1925-1926 student report from the German Evangelical Deaconess Hospital at 5421 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL. One category mentions "special nurses." I am not sure who these nurses might be? Graduates? There is also a picture of a student studying in her room in the nurses' home. And the line up of the class from graduates on the far right to the probationers ( probies) on the far left-no caps. Notice how even the bottom of their uniforms are-it is one continuous line.

Let's celebrate the life of Jacqueline Khan, a nurse activist whose actions to desegregate an OB ward in Washington, D.C. broke the color barriers of the time. Her obituary reports "The hospital gave up trying to stop her." We can use her example to push aside rules to heal the USA in order to move us to a more peaceful time. Please read further about Mrs. Khan's work as an activist. May she rest in peace. https://www.inquirer.com//obituary-jacqueline-kahn-civil-r

New donation to the Museum, a cape and diploma from St. Luke's and Children's Medical Center School of Nursing, Philadelphia, 1946. The nurse, Caroline, started before the war but she did not have to go to war because WWII ended by the time she graduated in November, 1946. We don't usually accept blue and red capes but this one has the school id on the collar. The diploma says it was incorporated in 1940. Does anyone know anyone else who attended this School of nursing in Philadelphia? Do you know its location? It no longer exists.

This picture is a quilt made for The Los Angles County General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1963. There are 76 blocks of caps with the nursing school cap in the middle. The quilt was made by someone in the Mormon church for one of the grads that designed the quilt and chose the colors. Each graduate's name is embroidered on the brim of a cap and placed in a square. An alum of the school (Sandra Thlick (Schick) is looking for more information about this craft-especiall...y from this school but in other schools of nursing as well. Is anyone familiar with this quilt from 1963? Has anyone seen quilting as an artwork to memorialize a nursing class? Has anyone seen this quilt or are you a graduate of this class? ? If you have any information about this quilt, we would love to hear from you in a post. If you know of other nursing alumni class art, please post a picture. See more

On August 13, 1910, Miss Florence Nightingale passed away. She definitely would have kept statistics on the clients under her care during this pandemic just as she did for the morbidity and mortality of the soldiers in the Crimea.

Enjoy this article from AlDia newspaper, https://aldianews.com//200-years-service-how-florenc/58396

Happy Nurses' Day to all nurses! Post a picture of yourself as a nurse so we can see the lovely/handsome faces of nurses all over the world. Let's celebrate old, new and all of the dedicated hard working nurses serving in this terrible pandemic. My graduation picture from Purdue Cal, a 2 year degree program.

Enjoy this clip of the game show, Password, featuring a student nurse, Louise Smith, from Philadelphia in 1962. She was a student at Hahnemann Hospital and did it during one of her breaks. https://www.bing.com/videos/search

Came across this interesting timeline of nursing that was completed by the Western Conservancy of Nursing for Azuza Pacific University in 2010. It is the history of southern California nursing. Be sure to use the scroll button at the bottom of the picture to move from 1825 to present. http://www.lahistoryarchive.org/re/WCNH_Timeline/index.html

Found this article on the ravages of the flu pandemic in The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, vol. 62-63, a google digitized book. You can find it at https://tinyurl.com/wkpkwp4 -click on the link. Scroll through the pages to see the other information that was reported by nurses. The ads are interesting also. What stands out to you?

Came across the Student Nurses Page in the American Journal of Nursing, November 1943 article which stated, "This study, a project in our ward management class, was assigned to us to compare the efficiency of the methods of bedpan and urinal disinfection by steam and by solutions" to determine adequate disinfection completed by the University of Wisconsin Madison students. They mention using the bedpan hopper. Found these two references to the machine that cleaned and steamed the bedpan. The ad is for a 1922 version. The undated flicker link is a video so you can see how it opens. Have you worked with this type of machine? https://www.flickr.com/photos/mycophagia/14731578937

This is a picture of a page taken from the 1921 Class of Bellevue Training School. The topic lists the deaths of graduate nurses and the bottom lists the students. Preliminary student-Dora Christenson means she was still in classes taken before entering the hospital aspect of training. Vassar Camp was a summer training for students who already had education in another subject but wanted to become nurses to help the WWI war effort. They held these women in esteem even 3 years later. The yearbook also gives a brief history of the Bellevue Unit of Base Hospital No. 1 which was begun by Miss Clara D. Noyes in June 1916. They arrived in Vichy on March 12,, 1918 at 11 pm and the townspeople cheered their arrival.

Due to the current pandemic status of COVID-19, the Museum of Nursing History, Inc. is closed until further notice.

We received a donation of TUBEX syringe cartridge holders. Each is very different-the metal one has two sides to hold the syringe and bends at the center to allow the cartridge to go in. The blue injector does not have a holder for the cartridge but the barrel part screws open and closed and the clear plastic one has half a cartridge holder. Does anyone have any stories to tell about using TUBEX? Do you remember the transition to this method? How were they cleaned? Did the nurse hold on to it or was it on the med cart? I think they were used in the 1980s. There was a mention online of their use to decrease waste. Was that a part of the picture at your hospital or clinic?