American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) is a professional organization which fosters the importance of history in understanding the present and guiding the future of nursing, ...

Country Joe McDonald's tribute to the nursing pioneer ...

Historical Information From 50 Years of progress in Post Anesthesia Nursing, 1940-1990.

A history of women in the military from the Revolutionary War to present day. Information about sexual harassment issues, current women veterans issues, and extensive information for military women, past and present.

Welcome to The Center for The Study of The History of Nursing. The Center was founded in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to collect, preserve and make accessible primary sources which document Nursing's history.

A history of women in the military from the Revolutionary War to present day. Information about sexual harassment issues, current women veterans issues, and extensive information for military women, past and present.

Cherry Ames, the popular mystery-solving nurse, starred in a juvenile series of 27 books by Helen Wells and Julie Tatham between 1943 and 1968.

Emergency Nursing World's look at nursing as described in 1895 by a British author ...

Virginia Nursing History Highlights of Nursing in Virginia, 1900-2000 Nursing Schools in Virginia: Past and Present Virginia Board of Nursing Virginia Nursing Organizations: History Virginia Recipients of National Nursing Awards Virginia Nursing Hall of Fame Virginia Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing Virginia Nursing History was compiled by the Joint History Committee of the Virginia ...

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The UMDNJ and Coriell Research Library presents... Black Nurses in History A Bibliography and Guide to Web Resources The nursing literature is rich with information on the history of Black nurses and their struggle for equality in the profession. We invite you to learn their story and to visit some web sites that pay tribute to their hard work and courage. For more information on nursing ...

Comprehensive links page to incountry women in Vietnam, including army nurse corps, special services and red cross. There is information about the Incountry Women e-mail discussion group. This page is dedicated to the Red Cross, Special Services, Army Nurse Corps, and other civilian and military women who served in Vietnam.

Contact the Web Diva Last update:24 June 02 Photo: Public health nurse, Dorothy Smith. Slave Lake, 1946 Used with permission from Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Archives ...

In-Country Women This gallery is dedicated to the nine military nurses and fifty-eight civilian women who died in Vietnam while serving their country. It is also dedicated to the only woman still listed as a POW/MIA, Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti. Memories By Karen Offutt Karen served as a stenographer in Vietnam during the period 1969-1970. Hello David and other Poems By Dusty Dusty served with the ...

The Florence Nightingale Foundation- a living memorial to Florence Nightingale - advances the study of nursing and promotes excellence in nursing practice. The Foundation raises funds to provide scholarships for nurses, midwives and health visitors tro study at home and abroad, to promote innovation in practice, to extend knowledge and skills to meet changing needs.

Nursing medical history about a World War One Red Cross nurse.

Lively and controversial new biography of Florence Nightingale ...

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Florence Nightingale: Rural Hygiene Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), usually presented as a sort of secular saint for her work on improving nursing during the Crimean War (1851-1854), is an example of woman who turned away from conventional domesticity to engage in a career. After Crimea, Nightingale, using very unsentimental ...

Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Her father, Captain Stephen Barton, was a farmer, horsebreeder, and respected member of the community. Her mother, Sarah, managed the household and taught Barton the importance of cleanliness. Barton was the youngest of five children, and her two ...

Florence Nightingale May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910 Written by Cynthia Audain, Class of 1998 (Agnes Scott College) Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for reform of the British military health-care system and with that the profession of nursing started to gain the respect ...

Profiles in Caring: Clara Barton 1821 - 1912 An institution that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness Clara Barton, a shy farm girl from Massachusetts, harnessed her iron will and devotion to human welfare to accomplish the good works which earned her world fame. Despite life-threatening ...

Dorothea Dix by Jenn Bumb. There are few cases in history where a social movement of such proportions can be attributed to the work of a single individual (Kovach, 1972). Dorothea Lynde Dix was a woman who accomplished much in her life. She was firstly a teacher and then a social ...

Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (renamed American Nurses Association in 1911) Deplorable working conditions and the need to protect the public from the incompetent women who claimed to be trained nurses propelled nursing leaders to form an association of trained nurses. In September 1896, in New York City, five members of an organizational committee (including Canadian ...

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The Country Goes to War: World War II The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1942 catapulted the United States into World War II. Graduates quickly responded to the military's call for nurses, leaving the home front understaffed. The need for nurses was great in all aspects of service: in hospitals, in the community, and in industry. Be it resolved ... that we, the delegates of the American ...

Profiles in Caring: Lillian D. Wald 1867 - 1940 Nursing is love in action, and there is no finer manifestation of it than the care of the poor and disabled in their own homes Lillian D. Wald was a nurse, social worker, public health official, teacher, author, editor, publisher, women's rights activist, and the founder of American community nursing. Her unselfish devotion to humanity is ...

Recollections of CAPT Ann Bernatitus, NC, USN of her experiences in the Philippines, Bataan, Corregidor, and Okinawa ...

Women in the Civil War: Five Nurses from St. Lawrence County, is a Women of Courage profile, produced by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women.

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History of the National League for Nursing (NLN) Supporting Nursing Education for over a Century.

WWII Nurses in Movietone Newsreels ...

Linda Richards, America's First Trained Nurse, is a Women of Courage profile, produced by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women.

Hall of fame, 1976 inductee, Maass ...

Discovered historical documents uncover the first official missing persons investigator, Clara Barton By Barbara Maikell-Thomas Gary Scott, a National Park Service regional historian very recently uncovered boxes of civil war memorabilia in a attic of a governmental building slated for demolition. What was found point in the direction that the first missing persons specialists was very likely a ...

Clara Barton in Dansville 1866 and 1876-1886 When the Civil War ended in the spring of 1865, Clara Barton was in her mid-forties. Although she had given three years of active service as a nurse on the front lines of the war, she was again ready to embark on a mission of mercy. She prevailed upon President Abraham Lincoln to advance her cause of establishing an Office of Correspondence with ...

Sophie Mannerheim (1863-1928) A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. She was daughter of a count and sister of a former Finnish President, marshal Carl Gustav Mannerheim. Her career started as a bank employee for 6 years until she got married in 1896. After her divorce in 1902 she was trained in ...

Biography of Clara Barton, who founded the American Red Cross and cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the conflict during the Civil War.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon had just begun her first year of nursing school when she saw the photograph that changed her life. Thumbing through a glossy magazine in 1942, the 21-year-old student from Amityville, N.Y., came across a picture of an Army nurse that captured her imagination. "She was striking, standing proud in her starched white uniform, black cape flowing behind her, " said ...

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A Psychiatric Nurse in the Philippines LUCILE SPOONER VOTTA Story by Kathy O'Grady When we went out of San Francisco everybody threw a dime or whatever they had under the Golden Gate Bridge and that was supposed to bring you back. That was how Mrs. Lucile Votta's actual journey to the Philippines began, but it really began long before then. Her journey began with her training as a nurse at Rhode ...

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Biography of Clara Barton, focus on how the planetary metaphor of Mars was reflected in her life and work, by astrocartographer Robert Couteau ...

Beyond Bed Pans: The Life of a Late 19th-century Young Nurse In this autobiographical account of the life that awaited new nursing recruits in 1893, former nurse Mary Roberts Rinehart painted a vivid portrait of the daily obstacles that stood between nurses and the professional status they hoped to attain. Rinehart described the simple, plain hell faced by the young nurse, a description that ...

Clara Barton and the MIAs: How Did She Do It Editorial by Chip Beck.

Profiles in Citizenship Policy Review January-February 1996, Number 75 Clara's Heart by Laura Morrow. Clara Barton struggled with bureaucratic insensitivity all her life. Her biggest problem was getting official permission to do good. Born Christmas Day, 1821, Barton showed a talent for organizing charity when she established the first free public school in Bordentown, New Jersey. After ...

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