The origin of “Nurse Eliza” was when Queen Elizabeth was to visit Nigeria in 1956, People were scantily recruited and given basic training on nursing care to administer first aid services in anticipation of accidents that would occur because of crowd that were eager to see the Queen during the visit.
After the visit, the ad-hoc recruits carried on with nursing services without proper training.
They’re Always on sky blue Apron, has red, blue black biros on her breast pocket but never write anything with it.
It is annoying to be called nurse Eliza, so, some people pick offense when called. Especially professionally trained nurses.
Have you heard of this before?
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