General Hospital Nurses in the Break Room, 1940

Name/Title

General Hospital Nurses in the Break Room, 1940

Entry/Object ID

H2010.005.00323

Made/Created

Studio

unknown

Date made

1940

General Notes

Note

Original or Copy: Original

Note

Nurses Mrs. Arlys Boodnow, Men's Medicine Supervisor, and Virginia Schmidt, Assistant Supervisor Women's Medicine, take a moment in the Minneapolis General Hospital break room in 1940. The daily average of nurses on duty in 1940 was one hundred-thirty R.N.s and two hundred five students. A one month annual vacation with pay was recommended for R.N.s