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pinboy3niner

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12. Hats off to Martha!

Fri Sep 26, 2014, 12:13 AM

Sep 2014

I spent 18 months in an Army hospital and got to know my nurses very well and went to some of their homes for dinner and had a place when I needed somewhere to stay.

One thing I got a kick out of was the nursing school caps that the civilian nurses wore (because the Army used both military nurses and civilian nurse employees). The civilian nurses were not required to wear the standard Army nurse cap. And I learned that each nursing school has its own distinctive cap, and that's what the civilian nurses wore, so we had a variety of styles on the ward.

One nurse in particular, Sherry, took a lot of ribbing about her cap--a narrow, frilly, lacy thing with some black ribbon on it (memory's foggy, but it may have been from a nursing school in Louisiana?). Sherry became a good friend, and I thought that was a very cool tradition.

Did I mention that I love nurses?

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My Daughter Passed Her Nursing Boards Today. [View all] Ikonoklast Sep 2014 OP

Congratulations to your daughter, my dear Ikonoklast! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2014 #1

Thank you so much, Peggy. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #3

Congrats to your daughter! mnhtnbb Sep 2014 #2

We'll certainly have a little celebration this Saturday. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #5

Good for her! Aristus Sep 2014 #4

I knew she had it down cold, her study habits border on brutal. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #6

Congratulations to her! pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #7

We have a long history of nurses in my family. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #8

Hats off to Martha! pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #12

I know that sense of pride. Congratulations. My sweet niece just passed her RN boards a month ago auntAgonist Sep 2014 #9

Good on her! Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #10

Exciting times and more hard hard work ahead! Nurses have drive or they'd never have gotten where auntAgonist Sep 2014 #11

Congratulations to your niece! pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #13

Congratulations! TeamPooka Sep 2014 #14

She so wants to get busy working, she wants to get a year in and then start school again. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #16

My wife is a nurse and is still getting degrees underwritten by her hospital. nt TeamPooka Sep 2014 #25

Congratulations to your daughter! Solly Mack Sep 2014 #15

Thanks Solly. I am so very happy she passed on the first try. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #17

YAY! discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2014 #18

Hard work and dogged determination, refusal to accept failure. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #19

Hooray!!! Tribalceltic Sep 2014 #20

She got recruited pretty hard by several hospitals. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #23

Congratulations! mucifer Sep 2014 #21

The boards were anywhere from 75 to 300 questions, luck of the draw. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #22

my second day of testing the student to the left of me mucifer Sep 2014 #27

Wonderful news! femmocrat Sep 2014 #24

I shot her a text this morning and asked if she slept at all last night. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #26