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Nursing is a profession which is staffed unproportionately by women in most parts of the world. [1][2][3] According to the World Health Organization 's (WHO) 2020 State of the World's Nursing, approximately 10% of the worldwide nursing workforce is male. [2] Since the 1960s, nursing has gradually become more gender-inclusive.
55 AD – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess. [2] 300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing. [3] c. 390 AD – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola. [4] c. 620 AD – Rufaida Al-Aslamia became the first Muslim nurse.
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 ...
Nursing professionalized rapidly in the late 19th century following the British model as larger hospitals set up nursing schools that attracted ambitious women from middle- and working-class backgrounds. Agnes Elizabeth Jones and Linda Richards established quality nursing schools in the U.S. and Japan.
Luther Parmalee Christman (February 26, 1915 – June 7, 2011) was an American nurse, professor of nursing, university administrator and advocate for gender and racial diversity in nursing. His career included service with the Michigan Department of Mental Health and academic posts at the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University and Rush ...
Anna Broms (1862–1890), first professionally trained nurse in Finland. Viola Davis Brown (1936–2017), first African-American to lead a state office of public health nursing in the United States. Abraão José Bueno (born 1977), Brazilian nurse and serial killer. Carrie E. Bullock (1887–1962), African American nurse.
Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer. [1]Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the ...
In 1958 Greene was the first male nurse to win a British Commonwealth Nurses Memorial Fund Scholarship which enabled him to study psychiatric care in Scandinavia, Holland and Belgium. [ 2 ] In 1973 Greene was awarded the OBE for services to nursing.