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"Historiographic Essay: The legacy of domesticity: nursing in early nineteenth-century America." 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.
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.
Nursing became professionalized in the late 19th century, opening a new middle-class career for talented young women of all social backgrounds. The School of Nursing at Detroit's Harper Hospital , begun in 1884, was a national leader.
Sister Dora (1832–1878), British 19th century nurse Ellen Dougherty (1844–1919), first professionally trained Registered Nurse in New Zealand Rosalie Dreyer (1895–1987) Swiss-born, naturalized British nurse and administrator who led the conversion from a volunteer service to the profession of nursing in Britain
Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) was the first professionally trained American nurse. [1] She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.
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The Popular Health Movement of the 1830s–1850s was an aspect of Jacksonian-era politics and society in the United States.The movement promoted a rational skepticism toward claims of medical expertise that were based on personal authority, and encouraged ordinary people to understand the pragmatics of health care. [1]