History of nursing

Recognizing changes in your field is an important part of appreciating modern nursing, but what about comparing nursing in 2016 to nursing 2 millenniums ago?

Let's take a trip down the nursing memory lane.

Pan-Am. emergency hospital nurses Other Title Pan American emergency hospital nurses Summary Photograph shows six Pan American Exposition nurses, in uniform, posed at a doorway with a flower garden. Names Arnold, C. D. (Charles Dudley), 1844-, photographer Created / Published [Buffalo, New York], [1901] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002707005/>.

Despite the famous saying that “Men rule the world,” no one can argue with the fact that there are many women who made a huge impact on our society throughout history. Women were oppressed for many years, but that didn't stop them from making amazing achievements in almost every field…

A nurse checks on patients by lamplight on a ward at Westminster Hospital, c. December, 1940 #TBT

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World War I Red Cross nurses on the battlefield with wounded soldiers.

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The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is the preeminent history of nursing research center and archive.

Recognizing changes in your field is an important part of appreciating modern nursing, but what about comparing nursing in 2016 to nursing 2 millenniums ago?