About me continued
Its day two of the democratic convention and its getting very interesting. What does this have to do with nursing you might ask? As I stated in my About Me section, I was a child of the forties and the fifties, which was the time of segregation. My school had two sections. One for whites and then the colored school. We had separate dorms, classes, and even our uniforms were different. The colored nurses were bedecked in pink dresses covered by stiffly starched aprons. The white school had blue dresses and white aprons. Each school sported their own individual caps. We were not allowed to go to the same classroom. And were only able to work together in two areas. The Dietary Rotation and the Neonatal Ward. Now at 19, and being a very curious person, I wondered why we could work together in those two areas and it was ok. But not in classes or living arrangements. Segregation did not then and still does not make sense.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Were you allowed to treat white patients or were you only able to treat black patients?