On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:57:39 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

Come bedtime Wednesday, I'll be reading Usenet, and with
luck it will take months to find out how _Lost Burgundy_
comes out.

No luck. I know how _Lost Burgundy_ came out, and am a few
chapters into Ethics for Nurses. (1916, IRRC)

Early on it says that first of all, a good nurse is a good
woman, then a few pages later includes a quote that says
that every person in a hospital has his duty.

Shows that they still believed that only women could be
nurses, but had not yet adopted the meme that women were
delicate sub-human creatures who are never included unless
specifically mentioned.

I recall when "male nurse" didn't mean quite the same thing
as "RN", and they worked only in mental hospitals and other
places where an imposing physical presence might be
required.

Mom came home from work once and told us the story of a
patient who wouldn't let a male nurse attend to her until
Mom put her cap on him.

The only caps I've seen at Parkview are the ones on the
call-button icons.

I wonder how many of the people now alive know why there's a
cap on that icon.

Time to put my pajamas into my go bag and go back to
Parkview.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/


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On 07/07/2025 18:43, Joy Beeson wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:57:39 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

Come bedtime Wednesday, I'll be reading Usenet, and with
luck it will take months to find out how _Lost Burgundy_
comes out.

No luck. I know how _Lost Burgundy_ came out, and am a few
chapters into Ethics for Nurses. (1916, IRRC)

Early on it says that first of all, a good nurse is a good
woman, then a few pages later includes a quote that says
that every person in a hospital has his duty.

Shows that they still believed that only women could be
nurses, but had not yet adopted the meme that women were
delicate sub-human creatures who are never included unless
specifically mentioned.

Or - the difference between book author
and quoted author, aside - the pronoun "his"
was being allowed to stand for a man or a woman.

It could even be from Florence Nightingale.

If anyone thinks we have too many pronouns now,
i could argue that this example shows that in the
past, we had too few. Although there, the good old
"singular they" would have worked.

Also, "nurse" used not to imply having education
in medical practices. Just... showing up.
I'm thinking about the Charles Dickens novel
standard of nursing.


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On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 23:55:53 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, "nurse" used not to imply having education
in medical practices.

Hence the expression "trained nurse", followed by
"Registered Nurse" and "Licensed Practical Nurse". There
was another kind, which I have now forgotten.

There used to be a Red Cross course called "home nursing".

I think I had more to say, but I just fell asleep. But I'm
going to sleep in my own bed.

Kept wanting to ask the nurses (several varieties, all
wearing the same scrub suits, including the housekeeping
staff) silly questions such as "are student nurses still
forbidden to run." Which came to me as I was "nurse
walking" to the car for something.

Ah, I think the root meaning of "nurse" is the kind rich
people hired to take care of small children.


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On 7/9/25 18:35, Joy Beeson wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 23:55:53 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, "nurse" used not to imply having education
in medical practices.

Hence the expression "trained nurse", followed by
"Registered Nurse" and "Licensed Practical Nurse". There
was another kind, which I have now forgotten.

There used to be a Red Cross course called "home nursing".

I think I had more to say, but I just fell asleep. But I'm
going to sleep in my own bed.

Kept wanting to ask the nurses (several varieties, all
wearing the same scrub suits, including the housekeeping
staff) silly questions such as "are student nurses still
forbidden to run." Which came to me as I was "nurse
walking" to the car for something.

Ah, I think the root meaning of "nurse" is the kind rich
people hired to take care of small children.

No. The original were nursing mothers with enough milk for the
Mistress's child. You are thinking of other positions with slightly
older children.
I am trained in among other things, Licensed Vocational Nursing.
I do my best to avoid nursing due to my own health problems.

bliss


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