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    "title": "Willis, Elizabeth Graham (Mrs.) nee McCoy, Elizabeth Graham",
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    "seq": 13,
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    "type": "photo",
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    "ocrText": "here Dumbar Hill\nIndiana AState Nurses' Assoriation\nwrite are yourself\nCIRCLE TOWER\nsuggestions\nPERSONAL\nINDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA\nFebruary 11, 1944.\nMB\nMiss Mary Beard, National Director,\nMirsBard say O.K now\nAmerican Red Cross Nursing Service,\nAmerican Red Cross,\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Miss Beard:\nI am returning herewith the photograph of Elizabeth G. McCoy.\nPhotographs are not published in our State bulletin. But, Miss Beard, no\ncommittee of nurses connected with this state could even consider publishing\na photograph of a nurse in uniform and wearing earrings.\nHas the A.R.C. Nursing Service changed its policy re jewelry with Nurses'\nuniforms? I know emphasis has been placed on this point with the aides.\nThe properly dressed institutional nurses do not wear jewelry other than\nwedding rings with their uniforms. And the textbooks for students continue\nto emphasize the importance of the uniform. This quotation is from the\nfifth edition of Aiken's \"Ethics for Nurses\" 1943, pages 80 - 81 -\nThe Uniform. - \"The uniform has been adopted as a necessary part\nof the nurse's equipment. It announces to the little world in\nwhich the wearer lives and works the character of her duties in the\ninstitution. It carries with it a certain quality that helps to\ndignify the wearer and demands a certain respect.\nDoes a nurse stop to consider that the manner in\nwhich she wears the uniform is an index of character? However care-\nfully the school authorities may design a uniform, it can be worn\nso as to present a careless, untidy appearance. If there are pins\nwhere buttons were intended; if the nurse has so little sense of the\nfitness of things that she is found wearing rings or other unnecessary\njewelry with a uniform dress that is designed for work; if her hair\nis untidy, her cap crooked, or perched in a fly-away fashion on her\nhead, so that it attracts undue attention; if part of the uniform\nis always missing, may we not conclude that such a nurse is lacking\nin attention to details and apt to be as careless in her work as\nin her appearance?\nA well trained nurse with her sense of what is\nproper duly developed will not be found wearing rings on fingers\nor in ears, bracelets, hair adornments, or conspicuous foot gear,\nwhile on duty in hospital or home.'\nSimilar statements can be found in Dietz, \"Professional Adjustments,\nJamieson and Sewall, \"Adjustment Notebook for Student Nurses.\" These are\ncurrent text books for students of nursing.\nC.\nThat the A.R.C. Nursing service would be willing to depart from the accepted\ncustom regarding uniforms seems incredible to me. Has it done so?\nSincerely,\nHelenTeal\nHelen Teal, R.N.\ngb\nExecutive Secretary"
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