Nursing Timeline
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Updated: 17 Oct 2018
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Created bySummer Joy Pagaduan
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Florence Nightingale born in EnglandNightingale publishes Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not.Nightingale founds the first training school for nurses at St. Thomas’ hospital in LondonNo nurses to tend to the woundedDr. Samuel Gross, chair of the Committee on the Training of Nurses, proposed development of training schools for nursesU.S. Sanitary Commission began to lobby for the creation of nursing schoolsNightingale’s famous school at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London openedLinda Richards graduatesFirst African-American women's nursing training program establishedMills College: The 2nd male nursing school was foundedChicago World’s FairIsabel Hampton Robb founds the group that will later become the American Nurses AssociationAlexian Brothers Hospital in Chicago establishes a nursing school to train menANA collaborates with Bedford Fenwick of Britain to found the International Council of Nurses (ICN)Men in the nursing workforce provided hospitals with a stable, subservient female workforce (proved useful since hospitals were staffed with students)First ICN meeting at World Exposition in Buffalo, NY to discuss state registration of nursesLicensure laws for nursing were passed in the state legislatures of North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, and VirginiaNational Association of Colored Graduate Nurses was formed in NY to break down discriminatory nursing practicesAmerican Nurses Association is founded to enhance collaboration among practicing nurses and educatorsAfrican American nurses were admitted to state association in parts of the country (except the South and District of Columbia)Scientific basis of medicine recognized and increased use of hospitalsAll states required exams for nurse licensureKentucky Committee for Mother and Babies establishedThe Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary closedNew York becomes the first state to have mandatory licensurePresident Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works AdministrationMary Mahoney Award establishedFirst Mary Mahoney Award givenPearl Harbor attackedHill burton Act funded building of hospitalsNew York fully mandates nursing licensureNLN assumes responsibility for administering first nationwide State Board Test Pool ExaminationNLNE becomes the National League for Nursing (NLN)Men were allowed to enter the military nursing corpsIdaho becomes first state to recognize diagnosis and treatment as part of the legal practice for NPsKaren Ann Quinlan demonstrates success of "life support"First incidence of HIVVietnam Women’s Memorial statue displayed is dedicated to two nurses (white and black) tending to an injured soldier. Showcases the important role nurses played in the Vietnam WarEnd-of-life Nursing Education Consortium funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Begin the shortage of nursesPeriods
The American Civil War: A time for training nurses. Reform for civilian hospitals initiatedConfederate hospitals were staffed by female volunteers or wounded soldiersFlu Epidemic, WWI, and early Depression Era124,000 nurses volunteered, graduated, and were certified for military services in the Army and Navy Nurse CorpsRise of Hospitals
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