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Nursing History Review1.1 (1993): 229-246. Dawley, Katy. "Perspectives on the past, view of the present: relationship between nurse-midwifery and nursing in the United States." Nursing Clinics of North America (2002) 37#4 pp: 747–755. Fairman, Julie and Joan E. Lynaugh. Critical Care Nursing: A History (2000) excerpt and text search; Hine ...
Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Nurse, author, theorist. Known for. Behavioral system model, nursing theorist. Dorothy E. Johnson (August 21, 1919 – February 4, 1999) [1] was an American nurse, researcher, author, and theorist. She is known for creating the behavioral system model and for being one of the founders of modern system-based ...
Eunice Rivers. Occupation. Nurse. Known for. Medical study coordinator. Spouse. Julius Laurie. Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie (1899–1986) was an African American nurse who worked in the state of Alabama. She is known for her work as one of the nurses of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study in Macon County from 1932 to 1972.
Mary Carson Breckinridge. Mary Carson Breckinridge (February 17, 1881 – May 16, 1965) was an American nurse midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which provided comprehensive family medical care to the mountain people of rural Kentucky. FNS served remote and impoverished areas off the road and rail system but ...
Alma S. Woolley. Alma S. Woolley (October 3, 1931, New York City – December 17, 2005, Baltimore) was an American nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author. She led several schools of nursing, and authored a number of books and articles on nursing education, the history of nursing education, and nurses.
1902 – Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service replaces, by royal warrant, the Army Nursing Service. [40] 1903 – The Armstrong Act of 1903 is passed in New York, requiring registration of nurses. [41] 1905 – The Spanish–American War Nurses Memorial is erected at Arlington National Cemetery in the United States. [42] [43]
Grady Memorial Hospital was founded in 1890 and opened in 1892, as an outgrowth of the Atlanta Benevolent Home. It is named for Henry W. Grady, an Atlanta Constitution journalist and later owner who became a major force in Georgia politics and advocated for a public city hospital. At the time of opening, the hospital officially had 14 rooms.
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...