"Almost immediately, the ward nurse came over to me," McLellan recalls.
Gitte Hall, the ward nurse, also didn't take Dhu's temperature because she didn't feel "hot".
-- A Bellevue Hospital ward nurse to his alcoholic patient (Ray Milland) in "The Lost Weekend" (1945).
The ward nurse, Gitte Hall, told the court it was usually taken at triage.
And we made beds, practising our hospital corners till they'd have made the sternest ward nurse beam with pride.
Standing nearby, the ward nurse, Oliveria Garcia, explained, "Most days, we may have two towels for 98 women".
"There's a remote chance we could discharge Maria," a ward nurse, says doubtfully. "Have there been any improvements in Mikhail?" the senior manager wonders, but there haven't.
Clearly, her course hadn't prepared her for the sight of an 80-year-old lady and a handsome ward nurse flirting outrageously.
There she meets the statutory sub-Cuckoo's Nest line-up of weirdos and wackos, presided over by the ineffably smug and understanding female ward nurse Whoopi Goldberg.
Neither Naderi, nor triage nurse Alyce Hetherington, nor ward nurse Gitte Hall, took Dhu's temperature during that visit; each saying it was one of the other's responsibilities.
Elderly staff members and their outmoded, if appealing, routines were retired (one ward nurse had spent her workdays knitting blankets for her patients).
