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"Historiographic Essay: The legacy of domesticity: nursing in early nineteenth-century America." Nursing History Review1.1 (1993): 229-246. Dawley, Katy. "Perspectives on the past, view of the present: relationship between nurse-midwifery and nursing in the United States." Nursing Clinics of North America (2002) 37#4 pp: 747–755.
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.
In Europe before the foundation of modern nursing, Catholic nuns and the military often provided nursing-like services. [2] It took until the 19th century for nursing to become a secular profession. In the 20th century nursing became a major profession in all modern countries, and was favored career for women.
Nursing became professionalized in the late 19th century, opening a new middle-class career for talented young women of all social backgrounds. The School of Nursing at Detroit's Harper Hospital, begun in 1884, was a national leader. Its graduates worked at the hospital and also in institutions, public health services, as private duty nurses ...
The Protestant churches reentered the health field in the 19th century, especially with the establishment of orders of women, called deaconesses who dedicated themselves to nursing services. This movement began in Germany in 1836 when Theodor Fliedner and his wife opened the first deaconess motherhouse in Kaiserswerth on the Rhine.
Maggs, Christopher J., ed. Nursing history: The state of the art (Routledge, 1987) Mumm, Susan. Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain (Leicester University Press, 1999) Santos, E.V. and Stainbrook, E. "A History of Psychiatric Nursing in the 19th Century," Journal of the History of Medicine (1949) 4#1 pp 48 ...
Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) was the first professionally trained American nurse. [1] She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.
Toggle 18th-19th century subsection. 1.1 1780s. 1.2 1810s. 1.3 1820. 1.4 1830s. 1.5 1840s. ... The timeline of nursing history in Australia and New Zealand stretches ...