Comments on: Looking into the Future, Looking into the Past. http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/ Sanity is madness put to good use. - George Santayana Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:50:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Leo Vine-Knight http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-9341 Leo Vine-Knight Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:46:06 +0000 http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/?p=3598#comment-9341 Hi, What a wild site you have here - many congratulations. Some of your readers might be interested in my psychiatric nursing blog - http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/ Cheers, Leo Vine-Knight Hi,
What a wild site you have here – many congratulations. Some of your readers might be interested in my psychiatric nursing blog – http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/
Cheers,
Leo Vine-Knight

]]> By: tammy swofford http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-9338 tammy swofford Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:33:36 +0000 http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/?p=3598#comment-9338 Hi Mother Jones! I am in Bethesda and catching up. I believe you are at a conference this weekend? Sorry I missed the deadline for the contest. Love ya, Tammy Hi Mother Jones!

I am in Bethesda and catching up. I believe you are at a conference this weekend?

Sorry I missed the deadline for the contest.

Love ya,

Tammy

]]> By: Cathy Lane RPh http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-9336 Cathy Lane RPh Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:56:02 +0000 http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/?p=3598#comment-9336 The 3-year program makes me feel old because it reminds me of my mother. I remember while working as a geriatric nursing assistant, one of the nursing students who was going for the 2-year round nursing training program at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was newly married and her husband was stationed on the Army Base, and she was going to stay in an apartment at the YWCA for several semesters while attending class. Thinking about that from 30+ years ago makes me feel really old, because my mother a good 35 years older than I had stayed in a YWCA while doing her student teaching in New Hampshire. The idea of women staying at the Y while attending college classes evoke memories of pressed white blouses tucked into fitted A-line skirts. As I recall, my friend was tall, slender and wore white polyester pantsuits with horizontal ribbing, simple cap with red stripe around the top hem, snub nosed white oxfords, the kind that have to be polished at least once weekly if not oftener. This must have been a time when wearing caps was starting to be optional, because I was astounded that another student at LCCC was not wearing a cap, and her pantsuit had a low-cut jonny collar, and it was rather scandalizing (especially in light of the fact that she told us her father was a Baptist minister). Some other nurses didn't wear their caps either, but dresses and skirts reached the kneeline and blouses chaste in appearance, with necessary white underwear. It was a time when it was felt that older people might be happier to see bright colors so our nursing assistant uniform was bright red, a scarlet--I felt like the Red Balloon. The 3-year program makes me feel old because it reminds me of my mother.

I remember while working as a geriatric nursing assistant, one of the nursing students who was going for the 2-year round nursing training program at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was newly married and her husband was stationed on the Army Base, and she was going to stay in an apartment at the YWCA for several semesters while attending class. Thinking about that from 30+ years ago makes me feel really old, because my mother a good 35 years older than I had stayed in a YWCA while doing her student teaching in New Hampshire. The idea of women staying at the Y while attending college classes evoke memories of pressed white blouses tucked into fitted A-line skirts.

As I recall, my friend was tall, slender and wore white polyester pantsuits with horizontal ribbing, simple cap with red stripe around the top hem, snub nosed white oxfords, the kind that have to be polished at least once weekly if not oftener. This must have been a time when wearing caps was starting to be optional, because I was astounded that another student at LCCC was not wearing a cap, and her pantsuit had a low-cut jonny collar, and it was rather scandalizing (especially in light of the fact that she told us her father was a Baptist minister). Some other nurses didn’t wear their caps either, but dresses and skirts reached the kneeline and blouses chaste in appearance, with necessary white underwear.

It was a time when it was felt that older people might be happier to see bright colors so our nursing assistant uniform was bright red, a scarlet–I felt like the Red Balloon.

]]> By: rach http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-9335 rach Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:42:59 +0000 http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/?p=3598#comment-9335 Just wanted to tell you - I love the new layout! Just wanted to tell you – I love the new layout!

]]> By: Jamie Davis, the Podmedic http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-9333 Jamie Davis, the Podmedic Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:09:20 +0000 http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/?p=3598#comment-9333 I, for one, am glad I don't have to do any doctor butt kissing. Seriously, though . . . All of the newer nurses (myself included) need to give a tip of the cap to our predecessors who built the nursing profession to where it is today. Mother Jones - I salute you! I, for one, am glad I don’t have to do any doctor butt kissing. Seriously, though . . . All of the newer nurses (myself included) need to give a tip of the cap to our predecessors who built the nursing profession to where it is today.

Mother Jones – I salute you!

]]> By: Sean http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-9321 Sean Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:55:24 +0000 http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/?p=3598#comment-9321 And they all secretly strive to be all that you are. *smile* And they all secretly strive to be all that you are. *smile*

]]> By: Felipe http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/10/looking-into-the-future-looking-into-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-9320 Felipe Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:05:21 +0000 http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/?p=3598#comment-9320 Hi Nurse Rached, I enjoy your posts and wanted to suggest an issue that could use some ink (or virtual ink). A nurse friend of mine sent me a link to a story written by a male nurse called "May I Have Another Peesh, Please?" http://nycrn.blogspot.com/2009/10/may-i-have-another-peesh-please.html The post was not only very funny but it highlighted the continuing discrimination and abuse faced by male nurses, not only from their patients, but from their co-workers. I thought this would make for an interesting story for you to tackle. Not enough has been reported on this issue and it seems the right time to shine a spotlight on it, especially with the healthcare debate dominating the airwaves. Thanks, Felipe Hi Nurse Rached,

I enjoy your posts and wanted to suggest an issue that could use some ink (or virtual ink).

A nurse friend of mine sent me a link to a story written by a male nurse called “May I Have Another Peesh, Please?”
http://nycrn.blogspot.com/2009/10/may-i-have-another-peesh-please.html

The post was not only very funny but it highlighted the continuing discrimination and abuse faced by male nurses, not only from their patients, but from their co-workers. I thought this would make for an interesting story for you to tackle. Not enough has been reported on this issue and it seems the right time to shine a spotlight on it, especially with the healthcare debate dominating the airwaves.

Thanks,
Felipe

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