Norma Gill - The First Ostomy Nurse In The World.

Ostomate & woundr

Apr 22, 2023 2:16 pm

Not many of you here but if you are old enough to remember a time when ostomy nurses were called ET it stood for enterostomal therapist.

I thought y'all might like a little bit of history. First is a link to an article describing the genesis of Enterostomal therapy nurses and ostomy care nurses.

https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/wmp/article/reflections-extraordinary-life-norma-n-gill-thompson-et

The second is a link to a video of a colleague and friend of mine who was one of Norma Gill's patients.

https://youtu.be/NRc_JHPgVoo

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Morning glory

Apr 22, 2023 3:45 pm

Thank you, very interesting.

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w30bob

Apr 22, 2023 3:54 pm

ET was a movie in the early '80s... no?

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weewee

Apr 24, 2023 7:48 pm

Et was in 1982 when it was released w30bob

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Norma Gill - the first ostomy nurse in the world.

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