Nursing history

Recognizing changes in your field is an important part of appreciating modern nursing, but what about comparing nursing in 2016 to nursing 2 millenniums ago?

Despite the famous saying that “Men rule the world,” no one can argue with the fact that there are many women who made a huge impact on our society throughout history. Women were oppressed for many years, but that didn't stop them from making amazing achievements in almost every field…

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This exhibit from the National Library of Medicine presents a selection of historic postcards that span a century of nursing imagery and investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now.

Remembering the dedicated people who nurse and care for the sick. Nurses Week May

1930's ad seeking nursing students! How different the times were back then!

Visiting nurse demonstrates syringe technique, Community Nursing Services of Philadelphia, c.1950. Image courtesy of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.