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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 ...
1983 – The importance of human rights in nursing is made explicit in a statement adopted by the International Council of Nurses. 1983 – UKCC becomes the profession's new regulatory body in the UK. 1984 – Under the Australian federal government plan, tertiary education for all Australian nurses was adopted. [7]
Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research (2007) Schultheiss, Katrin. Bodies and souls: politics and the professionalization of nursing in France, 1880–1922 (Harvard U.P., 2001) full text online at ACLS e-books; Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing (2004), 354pp; from ancient times to the present
Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Early Modern Europe marked a period of transition within the medical world. Universities for doctors were becoming more common and standardized training was becoming a requirement. [ 1 ] During this time, a few universities were beginning to train women as midwives , [ 2 ] but rhetoric against women healers was increasing. [ 1 ]
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The History of Nursing in the British Empire - Primary Source Edition (2014) Webster, C. "Nursing and the Crisis of the Early National Health Service," Bulletin of the History of Nursing Group (1985) 7:4-12. White, R. ed. Political Issues in Nursing: Past, Present and Future (John Wiley and Sons. 1985)
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