Sestrinski glasnik, Vol. 26. No. 3., 2021.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.11608/sgnj.26.3.6
Sofija (Sonja) Škrobe (Krasica, 8.2.1919. – Karlovac, 28.10.2002.)
Snježana Mirilović
orcid.org/0000-0002-4518-1162
; Opća bolnica Karlovac, Andrije Štampara 3, 47 000 Karlovac, Hrvatska
Abstract
Introduction: There have been very few published texts on the history of nursing in Karlovac and few data on the education and work of nurses. They are mostly parts of the monograph of the hospitals and/or other departments at the health institutions. The summary of the life of Sofija (Sonja) Škrove, her education, and her work have been analyzed in this text using his-torical documents.
Methods: The starting point for this text was the documents from the archives of the Kar-lovac General Hospital, the archives and collections of the Croatian State Archives (HDA), and the memories recounted by her daughter Sofia (Sonja) Škrobe. In addition, some previously published papers have also been used.
Results: Sofija (Sonja) Škrobe was born on February 8, 1919 in Krasica. After finishing pri-mary school in Karlovac, she went to high school for teachers in Zagreb for two years and when she came of age she enrolled and finished high school for nurses in Belgrade. After she officially took oath she was sent by order of the Ministery of Health and Regional People's Committee to various places for work. She worked at the Institute for the Control of Endemic Syphilis in Banja Luka, at the State Orphanage for Young Children in Zagreb, the Public Health Center in Karlovac, the State Children's Camp in Virje and Split, the Antituberculosis Clinic in Dubrovnik, and the District Health Centre in Karlovac. For the last 10 years before retiring, she worked as a community nurse in Karlovac. We can assume that according to the analyzed data, Sofija Škrobe was the first qualified public nurse in Karlovac. She died in Karlovac on October 28, 2002.
Conclusion: Looking at Sofija Škrobe's file, we can follow her professional career in many health institutions according to the social and health politics of that period. At the same time, we got an insight into the social, political, and health issues of the states of those times. Nurses, together with doctors, visited patients in their homes and provided care in mobile am-bulances. They were active at suppressing and curing, chronic and contagious diseases, raising the standards of hygiene and enlightening the people on health. It is apparent that such a work asked for personal sacrifices and that it was accompanied by difficult working conditions without consideration for the personal lives of the health professionals.
Keywords
Sofija Škrobe; history of nursing; Karlovac; School for Nurses; Community Nurse
Hrčak ID:
267927
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Publication date:
22.12.2021.
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