The Humane Nurse
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| The Humane Nurse | |
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| Den Humane Sygeplejerske (Danish) | |
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| Artist | Jens Jacob Bregnø |
| Year | 1 September 1941 |
| Medium | Copper, Denmark |
| Subject | A nurse holding an infant |
| Location | Copenhagen |
| 55°42′42″N 12°32′33″E / 55.71173°N 12.54242°E | |
The Humane Nurse (Danish: Den Humane Sygeplejerske) is a monument to Danish nurses standing in front of Bispebjerg Hospital, facing its old main entrance and with Lersø Park as a backdrop, in the Bispebjerg district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was unveiled in 1941 and depicts a uniformed nurse holding a somewhat obstinate infant in her arms.
The monument is located on the south side of the street Bispebjerg Bakke with the Lersø Park as a backdrop and facing the old main entrance of Bispebjerg Hospital on the other side of the street. It consists of a bronze statue of a nurse placed on a Bornholmian granite pedestal. The monument measures C. 331 x 125 x 95 centimetres. The statue is 220 centimetres tall.[1]
The statue depicts a young nurse holding an infant in her arms. She wears a nurses' uniform consisting of a short-sleeved dress, apron, cap and closed, long-necked shoes.[1] Nurses' caps were first worn by Danish nurses at the Garrison Hospital in the beginning of the nineteenth century and were introduced at Bispebjerg Hospital in 1913.[2]
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