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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 18th century was considered the Age of Reason.A lot of myths were contradicted by scientific fact. [7] Jamaican "doctresses" such as Cubah Cornwallis, Sarah Adams and Grace Donne, the mistress and healer to Jamaica's most successful planter, Simon Taylor, had great success using hygiene and herbs to heal the sick and wounded.
This is a list of famous nurses in history. To be listed here, the nurse must already have a Wiki biography article. For background information see History of nursing and Timeline of nursing history. For nurses in art, film and literature see list of fictional nurses.
A Short History of Nursing from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1920)full text online; abbreviated version of her four volume A History of Nursing; also vol 3 online; Donahue, M. Patricia. Nursing: The finest art, an illustrated history. (2nd ed. Mosby, 1996), with 441 illustrations (229 in color). Goodnow, Minnie. Nursing history (9153 ...
During World War I she became chief nursing inspector for the U.S. Army hospitals and organized the U.S. Army School of Nursing. [3] Key decisions about nursing were made by Goodrich along with Jane Delano, director of the Red Cross Nursing Service, and Mary Adelaide Nutting, president of the American Federation of Nurses. [4]
earned the first nursing education doctorate of the Catholic University of America [39] Adda Eldredge (1865-1955) 1986: instrumental in securing passage of an Illinois nursing practice act and became license holder #1 [40] Mary Sewall Gardner (1871-1961) 1986: author of the first text on Public Health Nursing in the U.S. [41] Elizabeth Sterling ...
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 ...