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The AAHN has several goals, including promoting interest in, and collaboration on, the history of nursing; educating nurses and the general public about the historical heritage of the nursing profession; encouraging research in the history of nursing; preserving and making accessible historical materials relevant to nursing; and promoting nursing curricula with adequate coverage of the history ...
Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.
only nurse to serve as president of the American Nurses Association, the American Journal of Nursing Company and for the International Council of Nurses [46] Virginia A. Henderson (1897-1996) 1996: theorist and researcher—authored one of the most definitive descriptions of nursing [47] Katherine J. Hoffman (1910-1984) 1996
A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras (2nd ed. 2013) 382 pp excerpt and text search 1st edition; Kalisch, Philip A., and Beatrice J. Kalisch. Advance of American Nursing (3rd ed 1995); 4th ed 2003 is titled, American Nursing: A History; a major scholarly history 756pp; well illustrated.
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 ...
The Living Legend designation from the American Academy of Nursing is bestowed upon a very small number of nurses "in recognition of the multiple contributions these individuals have made to our profession and our society and in recognition of the continuing impact of these contributions on the provision of health care services in the United States and throughout the world."
Sara E. Parsons (1864–1949), American nurse, writer and health administrator; Emma Maria Pearson (1828–93), writer and one of the first British Red Cross nurses, served in two wars; Lucy Creemer Peckham (1842–1923), American nurse, physician, and poet; Sue Pembrey (1942–2013) British nurse pioneer of patient-centred hospital care
The American Association for the History of Nursing has named an award in honor of Dock. The Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing recognizes outstanding writing and research in a book by an experienced scholar of nursing history. [12] In 1976, Dock was inducted into the American Nurses Association's Hall of Fame. [7]