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Home > Health > Nursing > History
See also:
Health: Nursing: History: Barton,_Clara
Health: Nursing: History: Profiles
Health: Nursing: History: Dix,_Dorothea_Lynde
Health: Nursing: History: Military_Nurses
Health: Nursing: History: Florence_Nightingale
1.Nurses Uniforms Past and Present
Provides a growing image gallery of Nurses Uniforms from the '30s to the present. An interesting resource for historians and costume designers. Includes useful links.
URL:http://dyk2.homestead.com/Index.html
2.An 1895 Look At Nursing
Excerpt from "Ambulance Work and Nursing" provides an enlightening look at the nursing environment of the day.
URL:http://enw.org/1895_Nursing.htm
3.History of Nursing Slides
Online slides, from the Concepts of Nursing Course given at Montgomery County Community College. The topic, "Duties of the Floor Nurse 1887", makes for interesting reading.
URL:http://faculty.mc3.edu/rbenfiel/NUR109/NUR109NursingHistory/sld001.htm
4.Beyond Bed Pans
"The Life of a Late Nineteenth Century Young Nurse". A story by former nurse Mary Roberts Rinehart, of what awaited new nursing recruits in 1893.
URL:http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/60/
5.My Beloved Poilus
Letters from France from 1914 written by a Canadian nurse. Several pictures depicting scenes during the war are featured on the site.
URL:http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/medical/canadian/cnurse.htm
6.My Aunt, My Hero
The story of Nurse Helen Fairchild, RN a nurse in Flanders during the Battle of Passchendaele 1917. Reprinted by kind permission of the author, Mrs Fairchild Rote, her niece.
URL:http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/medical/MaMh/MyAunt.htm
7.About Nurses and Nursing
A collection of net links on nursing history and notable nurses, from About.com.
URL:http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/nursesandnursing/
8.AAHN Nursing History 2000 Calendar
A calendar of significant historical events in nursing history.
URL:http://www.aahn.org/calendar/
9.History of Nurse Anesthesia Practice
Established in the late 1800s. Brief history page of the nurse anesthetists from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
URL:http://www.aana.com/library/history.asp
10.Voices from the Past: Visions of the Future
Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, history page.
URL:http://www.ana.org/centenn/centbegn.htm
11.American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
Historical overview of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit nurses(PACU, formerly known as Recovery Rooms).
URL:http://www.aspan.org/Historical.htm
12.The History of Nursing Archives
Personal and professional papers of nursing leaders, public health and professional nursing organizations, histories of various American and foreign schools of nursing, as well as an extensive book collection.
URL:http://www.bu.edu/speccol/nursing.htm
13.Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps
Provided by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. Includes an introduction, the evolution of the cap, capping ceremony, and demise of the cap. An array of vintage photographs are provided.
URL:http://www.civilization.ca/hist/infirm/inint01e.html
14.How Nursing Advanced from the 19th Century
Archived articles on nursing history from the University of Toledo libraries.
URL:http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack9.html
15.History of African-Americans in White
A nurse educator's research and findings about early African-American nurses.
URL:http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/edpl/gordon/courses/863/nurses.html
16.Zwerdling Nursing Archives
Some very unique historic art and postcards of Nursing, medical, and healthcare.
URL:http://www.deltiology.com/healthcare.main.html
17.Bangor Area Visiting Nurses
In 1913, Edith Bicknell was the sole registered nurse of the Bangor Area Visiting Nurses. A short history of this nursing service, which still exists today.
URL:http://www.emh.org/bavn/mission.htm
18.History of Frontier Nursing Service
A historical review of Mary Breckinridge's first effort to professionalize midwifery.
URL:http://www.frontiernursing.org/history_of_fsn.htm
19.From the Decline/Dark Ages to Rebirth/Renaissance of Nursing
Nursing during the Medieval Ages.
URL:http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1746/NursingDeclineHistory.htm
20.Men in American Nursing History
From prehistory to the present, an informative review. Includes suggestions for further reading.
URL:http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6011/
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