...hemorroidectomy patients stayed a week inpatient.
...doctors would send<font color="purple">Text</font> their patients in to a private room for a week for "rest".
...patients would be admitted the night before surgery for a shave and an enema.
...glass thermometers soaking in alcohol at the bedside for each patient.
...the only special bed on the ward was a circle-electric bed.
...we used to call our units "the ward".
...the patient bathrooms were out in the hallway and not in the patient rooms.
...color coded little medication cards.
...we mixed all our own IV's in bottles.
...we gave all our antibiotics by IM injection in the buttocks for weeks on end until we couldn't find a soft spot to put them in and half the time the solution would spit back out at you, and their hips were so sore and hard and bruised. (Thank God for IVP meds now!!!)
...families never stayed overnight with the patients and visiting hours we strictly enforced. (wholistic care was not a priority then).
...we cleaned, sharpened and sterilized needles on the ward and reused them over and over again.