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From Florence Nightingale to M*A*S*H; any site that features the history of nursing.

Subcategories

• Barton, Clara
• Dix, Dorothea Lynde
• Florence Nightingale
• Military Nurses
• Profiles

Resources in This Category

• About Nurses and Nursing

  http://womenshistory.about.com/od/nursesandnursing/
  A collection of net links on nursing history and notable nurses, from About.com.

• American Association for the History of Nursing

  http://www.aahn.org/
  Fosters the importance of history in guiding the future of nursing. Membership and conference information, online gift shop, and nursing history calendar. Also provides photographs of the graves of historically significant nurses with short biographies.

• An 1895 Look At Nursing

  http://enw.org/1895_Nursing.htm
  Excerpt from "Ambulance Work and Nursing" provides an enlightening look at the nursing environment of the day.

• Beyond Bed Pans

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/60/
  "The Life of a Late Nineteenth Century Young Nurse". A story by former nurse Mary Roberts Rinehart, of what awaited new nursing recruits in 1893.

• From the Decline/Dark Ages to Rebirth/Renaissance of Nursing

  http://www.angelfire.com/fl/EeirensFaerieTales/NursingDeclineHistory.html
  Describes nursing conditions and influences during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.

• History of Nursing Slides

  http://faculty.mc3.edu/rbenfiel/NUR109/NUR109NursingHistory/sld001.htm
  Online slides, from the Concepts of Nursing Course given at Montgomery County Community College. The topic, "Duties of the Floor Nurse 1887", makes for interesting reading.

• My Aunt, My Hero

  http://www.vlib.us/medical/MaMh/MyAunt.htm
  The story of Helen Fairchild, RN, a nurse in Flanders during the Battle of Passchendaele 1917. Written by Mrs Fairchild Rote, her niece.

• My Beloved Poilus

  http://www.vlib.us/medical/canadian/cnurse.htm
  Letters from France from 1914 written by a Canadian nurse. Several pictures depicting scenes during the war are featured on the site.

• Nurses Uniforms Past and Present

  http://dyk2.homestead.com/Index.html
  Provides a growing image gallery of Nurses Uniforms from the '30s to the present. An interesting resource for historians and costume designers. Includes useful links.

• Nursing History Digitization Project

  http://forms.msvu.ca/library/tutorial/nhdp/index.htm
  A collection of photographs and documents from nursing schools, pertaining to the history of nursing education in Nova Scotia, Canada.

• The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

  https://www.nursing.virginia.edu/Research/cnhi/
  Established in 1991 at the University of Virginia for the preservation of the history of Nursing. Online photographs and a highlighted collection.

• Zwerdling Nursing Archives

  http://www.nursepostcard.com/
  Some very unique historic art and postcards of Nursing, medical, and healthcare.

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