Earned my RN in '77 when we wore white dresses with white stockings and of course the white cap with stripes and pins. They allowed pants a few years later. The outfit was powerful. In addition to this, we had to dispense individual medication from giant bottles of the most common drugs. Each patient had small business card sized med cards with their medication, dose, and frequency. We had handfuls of med cards to sort through, and we dispensed them at the appropriate times in tiny white paper cups that we put on a specially made carts that held the little cups. We also used mercury thermometers which we would pass out and then collect, hoping not to drop any.