Memories of the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing Memories of the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing
Pat, Class of 1958: When we got our full uniform, um, look at the way our hats are folded. [Looking at photograph.] Margaret, Class of 1958: [Laughing.] Pat: […]
Interviewer: So following on that line of uniforms and appearance, I understand there were many rules regarding the student nurse uniform and your general appearance when you were […]
Interviewer: […] were there any tricks or tips that you remember on how to care for your uniform? Charlotte, Class of 1969: Well the hospital washed things. I […]
Charlotte, Class of 1969: [Laughs.] Oh yes, Mrs. Chase was the mannequin. Interviewer: So what, what type of, you know, procedures or treatments? You had mentioned bathing Mrs. […]
Nursing students were required to wear their full nursing uniform, complete with cape, when traveling between their student residence and the hospital.
Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing received its first Mrs. Chase doll in 1950, a gift from its Alumnae Association.
Beginning in 1922, a pearl-encrusted pin, donated by Mrs. Mary Kate Pellatt Hamilton, was awarded annually to a graduate who exemplified “personal neatness, cheerfulness and kindness to patients.”
All graduation pins from the Women’s College Hospital School of Nursing feature the school’s motto Non Quo Sed Quo Modo (Not What We Do But How).
Before standard nursing uniforms were available through department stores and mail order catalogues, probationers were responsible for making their own uniforms. A fabric swatch and a letter detailing […]
Students had to be respectful of each other in the dorm rooms. They sometimes worked opposing shifts on the wards.
Nursing students stand around their first patient, Mrs. Chase, a teaching mannequin.
As part of their clinical training, student nurses cleaned medical instruments in the basement of the hospital’s outpatient clinic.
