Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977 Page: 8
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Marcello:I gather that entertaining during that period was, on a
great many occasions, a very formal affair with long dresses
and so on and so forth.
The Saturday night balls at the Officers' Club was very
formal and very lovely.
What sort of a workday would you put in here at Tripler
General Hospital? Why don't you describe what a typical
workday would be like for you from the time you got up until
you got off duty and that sort of thing.
If I remember correctly, we went to work at seven o'clock in
the morning, and we had shifts. Some of us would go off
maybe for two or three hours in the afternoon, and then we
would come back and work to seven. It depended, also, on
how many nurses were assigned to the ward. If there was
just two nurses, like many a time there was, one of us would
come on for a couple of hours in the morning and then take
off and then come back at noon and relieve the other nurse,
and she'd go off for the afternoon. I think that was the
majority that had two nurses. Otherwise, they could plan
it; one could work in the morning and then one taking off a
couple of hours or maybe one taking a couple of hours off in
the afternoon. But someone always got the afternoon off.
How many nurses would there have been here at Tripler? You'd
have to estimate this, of course.
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Murphy, Elizabeth. Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977, book, May 30, 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98989/m1/10/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.