![]() ![]() Oh, but there were no rules against meeting your future spouse at the hospital. “You had to sign out if you were going to leave,” Wehrer recalled. “We had a curfew and a house mother,” Edwards remembered. “The tuition at Nesbitt was very reasonable,” she added.Įdwards and her friend Susan Kmiecinski Wehrer remember the bonding experience of living in the student nurses’ dormitory, where the young women sometimes relaxed by playing pinochle in the rec room, with their hair up in rollers. “But we didn’t get credits because we didn’t pay for them.” “Actually, we did take college courses, at Wilkes College,” Edwards remembered. “We were in the hospital starting on day one.” And we were diploma graduates, so we had a lot of bedside experience,” compared to the nurses who, during that era, enrolled in college as opposed to a school of nursing. ![]() “The school was smaller, and the hospital was small,” said Donna Roberts Edwards, class of 1968, now living in New Jersey. “People still talk about the feeling they had when they were patients.” “When you talk about Nesbitt, you’re talking about a family,” said Nancy Daily Carey of Kingston Township, class of 1966. Susan Kmiecinski Wehrer and Donna Roberts Edwards, from the Nesbitt Hospital School of Nursing class of 1968, remembered with a laugh how young women would relax and play pinochle in the rec room of the student nurses dormitory, “with our hair up in rollers.”Īs 100 alumnae of the former Nesbitt Hospital School of Nursing mingled Sunday afternoon during a reunion at the Mary Stegmaier Mansion in Wilkes-Barre, they reminisced about their school days in Kingston, and the nearby Nesbitt Hospital where they gained bedside experience. ![]()
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