Friday, August 8, 2008

"Penalties" for nursing students...

I was looking for pictures of nurses when I came across the following excerpt on the site Nursing History Digitalization Project


Students in the hospital nursing programs were required to live in residence while enrolled in the nursing school, as well as follow a strict set of rules and regulations which applied to all facets of the student’s life. These rules applied to everything from their behaviour to their dress and if the rules were not followed the students were disciplined. Most dismissals from the program due to a lack of discipline often occurred early on in the student's training. Due to the surplus pool of labour that existed, students who quit or were expelled could easily be replaced. Senior students however, were a valuable skilled labour force and were not quite as easy to replace. Therefore as long as the student was willing to accept a penalty and appeared to repent they would not be expelled from the program.


Hm...now what might those penalties have been?


1 comment:

Betty's Goodboy said...

i wonder what the penalty was for guy nurses...