Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977 Page: 9
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Marcello:I would estimate there must have been, oh, about a hundred
nurses. Maybe there wasn't even that much, I mean, with the
head nurses that worked in the offices that really didn't do
actually any bedside nursing at all. That includes the
nurses in surgery.
Now what sort of . . . I don't know if we can use the term
leave or liberty to describe your off-duty hours here at
Tripler, but how would your off-duty routine work? In other
words, how many weekends out of a month might you get off or
anything of this nature?
Oh, we never got any weekends, no. That's one thing about
. . . when I was stationed at Fort Lewis, there just wasn't
any weekends, and there was a lot of nurses there. When we
got off night duty, they generally gave us two days. But
otherwise, we didn't know anything about weekends. We didn't
even have a day off; we just had half-days off. There was
an arrangement later on that we would get a three-day leave
and be able to go to one of the other islands if we so chose,
which I did. That came about . . . well, we had to put in
for it, and it was about maybe once every four months that
we could do that. Of course, this was after the war started.
Otherwise, there was no such thing as a weekend off.
In other words, it was just a continual seven days with a
certain amount of time off each one of those days?
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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/m1/11/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.