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Duke Hospital nurse reading with a pediatric patient

Description/Abstract: A Duke Hospital nurse reads with a young male pediatric patient in a hospital room.

Date: undated

Dietetics nursing staff checking patient food trays

Description/Abstract:	School of Nursing, Dietetics program staff checking individual trays in ward kitchen of Duke Hospital.
Date:	1940

Early Hospital lobby, the two-sided desk

Description/Abstract:	A nurse speaks on the phone at the two-sided desk in the original hospital lobby. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical student, sat at the desk during his evening work in the foyer of Duke Hospital...
Date:	circa 1930

Nurses' Aide training in Duke Hospital

Description/Abstract:	Two nurses or nurses' aides take the pulse of a patient in bed at Duke Hospital. The patient has a thermometer in his mouth.
Date:	1942

Duke Hospital nurses participate in nursing inservice education

Description/Abstract: Uniformed nurses studying during a nursing inservice education session.

Date: circa 1969-1975
Nurses helping a pediatric patient tie on a mask

Description/Abstract: Two Duke Hospital nurses help a young female pediatric patient tie on a face mask.

Date: undated
Nurses in operating room during a surgical procedure

Description/Abstract: Registered nurses administering anesthesia in a operating room of Duke Hospital.

Date: 1940

Rachel Ann McSwain Harrell with a pediatric patient

Description/Abstract:	Harrell, a nursing student, prepares to administer a shot to an infant. Harrell graduated from the School of Nursing in 1948.
Date:	1948

Patient in respirator, with nurse

Description/Abstract:	A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.
Date:	1951

Nellie Hatley, Duke Hospital nurse

Description/Abstract: Uniformed nurse Nellie Hatley on a Duke Hospital ward.

Date: 1967