Keywords: Nurses Cap
Item 17248
Nurse's cap, Bar Harbor, ca. 1964
Contributed by: Mt. Desert Island Hospital Date: circa 1964 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Cloth
Item 104126
Capping ceremony, Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, ca. 1975
Contributed by: Northern Light Mercy Hospital Date: circa 1975 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
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Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3
"… that “When not in uniform, nurses wear their caps to the dining room as well as to the classroom.” Another institutional tradition involved the…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor
"When she earned her nursing cap she took on a few nursing jobs over a four-year period. Over those four years she decided to enlist in the U.S."
