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In the 1940s the Danvers Mental Hospital, one of his biggest problems is the lack of nurses and general assistance only. It is well known that qualified nurses, generally tried to stay away from Danvers Hospital, and there is a strong change. This fact makes it difficult for nurses and other employees, many of whom were desperate for work and money. The work in this mental hospital was very physically demanding. The attendees were forced to assume many responsibilities nurses registered.
Auxiliary nurses taught:
 • How to administer insulin in the old way with the resolution of Bendix which had to be boiled in a number of drops.
 • How to measure fluids and then evaluate what they saw
 • How to give the medication (RN verify the letters and put the pills in individual cups for helpers to dispense at the right time)
 • about violence rooms if they ever had to work there
The workers were assigned to specific rooms, but had to work like everyone neighborhoods that need coverage. Reared males were assigned to men and violent neighborhoods.
There was a strict dress code, even for the audience. All nursing staff, including assistants, all-white uniforms, no pants, sweaters even had to be white. Attendees men had to follow this dress code. There were no male nurses during this time period. All the shoes had to be white.
The Boards of violence had lots and lots of patients, who were more like wild animals that wander up and down the aisles. Some of them looked normal, but to utter nonsense, a sort of gibberish, about two years old. I can imagine how stressful it must have witnessed such behavior in the long shifts. I think it would hear their voices long after I left the change. It seems as if these employees could do was to face and fight the patients daily. We have to keep remembering the mental health researchers had not yet discovered the appropriate medications and treatment plans.
The assistants were the lowest paid staff members and is expected to carry the heaviest burden. Some of the nurses had personal problems of their own and coming to work a little tipsy. Attendees to these nurses and coffee take turns walking around the room in attempts to obtain alcohol from their system so they could be of any real help in the change. What is even more alarming is that these advisers not consider reporting these incidents. All that seemed to address them, as likely, because there was a shortage of help, and drunk or not, at least, the person was another body in turn.
Many participants were young with a handful women over thirty years. Younger participants followed the example of former collaborators. Turning in a colleague was something not just made. They felt like they have to stick together through whatever Danvers threw at them. Many times, the participants ended up giving all the attention the patient. It sounds as if there were a handful of workers trying to provide the necessary care to these patients at a time when there was not even a reliever give a patient.
The professional nurse had a tendency to underestimate the audience, or as recalled by some of the attendees. During the decade of 1940, Danvers also served as a training center for some of the local nursing schools. The aides felt that these nursing students looked on them as well, and Danvers supervisors did not want students to associate with the audience.
Attendees did not always sit quietly; However, there were cases of revenge. The writer of the book "Memoirs of a Danvers State nurse in the asylum", tells the story of how he lured one of nursing students to the top floor that was closed. There were no beds in chains in the attic, relics of the past even more brutal. The young student was eager to see the loft of age and continued until the assistant as an excited little boy. The attic was dark and oddly quiet compared with the constant noise of occupied floors. The student nurse came first, the assistant closed the door behind her and said, "Now, try to get out! "The student nurse, even had a passkey every time, like all staff, but knew she would work on the attic door. The wizard went back downstairs with the student nurse shouting for her to let her out. After a while the student nurse who had discovered a key step worked on the door and left. The adviser said he never gave the student nurse and probably the reason was that he was too ashamed to admit an assistant had achieved the best of it.
It seems as if many different types of personnel problems for Danvers State Mental Hospital during the golden age. I to say no wonder professional nurses avoid employment in a work environment with antics as it happens!
Source: Memoirs of Danvers State nurse at the asylum, written by Angelina Szot and Barbara Stilwell,
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