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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Lucy Lincoln Drown (August 4, 1848 – June 21, 1934) was an American nursing educator. [1] [2] She was the superintendent of nurses at the Boston City Hospital from 1885 to 1910, which “made her a national figure in nursing”. [3] [4] She was one of the pioneers in nursing education in the US. [5]
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 ...
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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 ...