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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.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.  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.
nurses' uniform apron Bornholm cap Bispebjerg Garrison Hospital Bispebjerg Hospital Lersø Park Danish