{"id":4163,"date":"2020-05-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:23:16","slug":"recognizing-nurses-with-a-historic-poem-this-national-nurses-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=4163","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing Nurses with a historic poem this National Nurses Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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As COVID-19 confines thousands to hospitals around the country, nurses are in high demand.\u00a0 The UMB School of Nursing has answered this call by offering qualifying May 2020 graduates an \u201cearly exit<\/a>\u201d opportunity. The early exit was announced April 27, 2020 and allows newly minted BSN and CNL nurses to join the workforce and help fight COVID-19 in local Baltimore hospitals.\u00a0 While it may not be the commencement celebration these nurses had in mind when they started their education, many are answering the call and jumping headfirst into the COVID-19 fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Gentle Nurses” poem in the 1905 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the midst of this global pandemic falls National Nurses Week, May 6 to 12, 2020.\u00a0 During this monumental time the HS\/HSL wishes to show our thanks to our UMB nurses past and present with a fitting poem from the 1905 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook<\/a>.\u00a0 We know nurses on the front lines of this illness are all experiencing \u201cendless, sleepless nights,\u201d soothing your \u201cfever racked\u201d patients through \u201cfitful dreams\u201d and \u201cthrobbing brain\u201d, and blissfully cheering on all those lucky enough to have \u201chealth and strength return.\u201d\u00a0 For so many patients today, you are their sole cheerleader and adopted loved one, so for \u201cas long as gratitude shall live,\u201d we thank you.<\/p>\n

The \u201cGentle Nurses\u201d poem was featured in the 1905 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook.\u00a0 The Yearbook was curated by students of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Law, and Pharmacy.\u00a0 Some early yearbooks also featured the graduating classes of the University Hospital Nurses Training School, a predecessor of today\u2019s School of Nursing; however, the 1905 Yearbook includes no mention or photograph of the students in this school, only the Gentle Nurses poem hints at the nurses training in the same hospital as medical students and faculty.\u00a0 Early yearbooks commonly featured the poetry, literature, satire, and art pieces of students at the University and provide excellent glimpses into the culture of the time period.\u00a0 Please view the content in the UMB yearbooks and shared in this Blog within this light.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the midst of this global pandemic falls National Nurses Week, May 6 to 12, 2020.\u00a0 During this monumental time the HS\/HSL wishes to show our thanks to our UMB nurses past and present with a fitting poem from the 1905 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,12],"tags":[151,208,214,187],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-collections","category-nursing","tag-national-nurses-week","tag-poetry","tag-umb-yearbooks","tag-umbson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}