Nurse's caps 1874 Hunter College Hunter Bellevue School of Nursing (NYC) - $2,200 - (Ellsworth, ME)

Passed down through a family of Nurses, over 144 years old. From the Hunter College Hunter Bellevue School of Nursing New York City to Boston area hospitals. The caps are from first year student to head nurse. The head nurse one still has box with original wrapping paper. The museum wants these bad, since they only have one of these,,I can't afford to take the big tax break to donate. Text courtesy of the Foundation of New York State Nurses. For information see the Foundation's collection of Bellevue Schools of Nursing records.The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United Stated to be run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. These principles, among other things, called for strict rules of hygiene and cleanliness, as well as having a staff of trained nurses supervised by a woman who would be in charge of nursing services in the hospital. Plans for the school began a year earlier, when a group of women, led by Louisa Lee Schuyler, concluded in a report to the State Board of Charities that the condition of the public hospitals of the City and County of New York was unacceptable. They proposed that a supply of trained nurses would greatly improve care in these hospitals, and formed a committee to look into the creation of a training school for nurses. The Chair of this committee was Mr. William Osborn and Dr. W. Gill Wylie was one of the school's strong supporters on the medical staff at Bellevue Hospital . Dr. Wylie undertook a trip to Europe to visit nursing schools in England, France and Germany and came home with many ideas and a letter of advice and support from Florence Nightingale.

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