Add to ORKGRuth Halland recalls her experiences as a nurse during the 1930s-1960s. She describes getting her certification as a nurse during the late 1920s, then going back to school in the 1960s at Montana State University Billings, and later Bozeman, in an effort to obtain her nursing degree. Halland discusses the importance of continuing education in the nursing profession and how nurses should look for opportunities to update their knowledge due constant advances in the medical field. She talks about spending the majority of her nursing career at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and describes the hierarchical system of women nurses deferring to male doctors and younger, student nurses deferring to older, more experienced nurses. She talks about h...