Working as a sicknurse may have provided women with a supplementary income, and many women may have taken on the work since it required no recognised training.
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Sicknurse
Synonyms for "sicknurse"
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But the law also did not define the duties of a sicknurse. However, the 1870 Commission determined, based on Dr. Shier's Inspection Records, "that the whole responsibility of the Hospital, except prescribing medicine or performing operations, falls upon the sicknurse" […]
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