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rn During the Civil War, when Dorothea Dix was appointed superintendent of the United States Army Nurses, she wanted to screen the deluge of volunteers, according to Bullough and Bullough, in The €mergence of Modern Nursing. To discourage volunteers, Miss Dix listed the following requirements. No woman under 30 years need apply to serve in the government hospitals. All nurses are required to be very plain looking women. Their dresses must be brown or black, with no bows, no curls, no jewelry, and no hoop skirts. One candidate replied: 1 am in possession of one of your circulars, and will comply with all your requirements. I am plain looking enough to suit you and old enough. I have no near relatives in the war, no lover there. I have never had a husband and I am not looking for one. Will you take me?
There is only one other country in the Western developed world with a lower percentage of women in high level positions in the health labor force than the United States, according to an article in Human Behavior. Spain.
rn Fat can be good. Pudgy women have an edge on men in long distance athletic events such as running and swimming, according to Dr Joan W L Ullyot, marathoner and director of aerobics and physiology at the San Francisco Institute of Health Research. Her research was reported in Medical World News. Dr Ullyot concludes that other things being equal, a woman of the same size and age as a man weighs less-because fat is lighter than muscle mass-and she can go farther because fat is a better fuel and a woman has more of it.
rn How many student nurses are planning on specializing in operating room nursing? Of those who plan to specialize, about 9% according to a survey,by the National Student Nurses’ Association. Operating room nursing ranked fifth in popularity as a specialty, superseded by pediatrics, oblgyn, mecUsurg, and ICU, in that order.
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rn AORN gets many requests for information about operating room nursing, which is to be expected. The following request, however, exceeded our expectations. Gentlemen: Please send me any available infonation you have on operating room nurses. I received a note from the Wildlife Management Institute suggesting I contact you for free materials. They will be a great aide [sic] to our nurseing [sic] classes and our careers programs. The name of the high school and the writer are withheld to protect the innocent.
AORN Journal, November 1975, Vol22, No 5
There is only one other country in the Western developed world with a lower percentage of women in high level positions in the health labor force than the United States, according to an article in Human Behavior. Spain.
rn Fat can be good. Pudgy women have an edge on men in long distance athletic events such as running and swimming, according to Dr Joan W L Ullyot, marathoner and director of aerobics and physiology at the San Francisco Institute of Health Research. Her research was reported in Medical World News. Dr Ullyot concludes that other things being equal, a woman of the same size and age as a man weighs less-because fat is lighter than muscle mass-and she can go farther because fat is a better fuel and a woman has more of it.
rn How many student nurses are planning on specializing in operating room nursing? Of those who plan to specialize, about 9% according to a survey,by the National Student Nurses’ Association. Operating room nursing ranked fifth in popularity as a specialty, superseded by pediatrics, oblgyn, mecUsurg, and ICU, in that order.
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rn AORN gets many requests for information about operating room nursing, which is to be expected. The following request, however, exceeded our expectations. Gentlemen: Please send me any available infonation you have on operating room nurses. I received a note from the Wildlife Management Institute suggesting I contact you for free materials. They will be a great aide [sic] to our nurseing [sic] classes and our careers programs. The name of the high school and the writer are withheld to protect the innocent.
AORN Journal, November 1975, Vol22, No 5