parts were harder and parts were easier than now. This film doesn’t show hard they worked, it seems to be a selling tool for nursing so of course they would downplay the difficulties. Their pay was also very low, even through the 1970s.
Los Angeles graduated the first male in 1901 so they have always been present. Just in smaller numbers. It was not unusual for those early 1900s men to use nursing as a beginning and then go on to medical school. And going back much further, men were nurses because woman were not allowed to care for men. I have heard that in Africa the majority of nurses were men, and they still have many male nurses today.
Well, I would be out already. I was in the bottom 1/4 of my high school class. Everybody learns at a different pace, I'm an RN now. Also, the video shows white women assisting white male doctors. That's changed a lot in the US.
I am nurse assistant and now, I figure I rather be a Nurse or a physician. Before I started working in the medical field, I wanted physical therapy though.
That rolled hair was a common style called the Victory roll. All nurses had to keep their hair off their shoulders but they weren’t required to all wear the same hairstyle. I think the Victory roll was just an efficient and popular style to keep their hair off the shoulder.
@meddetect10 I don't completely agree with you. If you read many writing from the early days of nurse's training, they were not all that happy. They worked long hours on the floor and were treated almost like slaves of the hospital. They didn't always like it. They were made to perform money saving tasks that did not augment a nurse's knowledge, such as washing and folding linens. And just like the early Army Nurse videos--they were told to smile, smile, smile--as I'm sure they were here.
