What I Learned To Bring Back Memories Of Nursing School

My instant reaction is dread because it brings back memories of nursing school and all the skills we had to learn. The piece however is powerful because it shows how a nurse is being trained. I found the piece interesting because even in the 1900s the training is on dummies like it still is today, there was no real patient interaction until you learned the skill. It is great to see some things with the structure of learning about nursing have stayed the same. The piece shows about 15 women plus an instructor gathered around a mannequin that is stood up on a stand. The instructor is wrapping the mannequins arm, showing a bandaging technique to use. The woman all have a cap on and are in heavy dresses. The piece takes place in a hospital, as

You can see well defined lines of all the women and their dress as well as the mannequin on display. There is light and dark shading also used to show the difference from the women learning in the forefront and the beds in the background. The artwork brings back memories from nursing school and how we would gather around the instructor during skills lab to learn something new. We all watched on with awe and interest as the instructor taught, just as in the piece. This brings back all sorts of emotions from anxiety when we would have to test our skills, to happy with the comradery of our class coming together learning something new. I picked this piece because I think it shows how great the structure of nursing and instruction can be. It shows that there always was a standard for learning and that nurses just weren’t thrown in the hospitals to figure it out on their own. It shows how we strive as nurses to perform the tasks correctly and efficiently. The chosen artwork I feel accurately describes what was in the context of the reading, so I have no questions about it. The women followed a plan of instruction that included lectures given by Warrington, demonstrations, and practice on mannequin (Donahue