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1960 – The first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was established. 1960 – The Nursing Studies department at the University of Edinburgh initiates the first degree in nursing. [76] [77] 1963 – Ruby Bradley retires from the U.S. Army Nurse Corps [78] with 34 medals and citations for bravery. [79] 1964 – Daphne Steele becomes the first Black ...
Nursing Clinics of North America (2002) 37#4 pp: 747–755. Fairman, Julie and Joan E. Lynaugh. Critical Care Nursing: A History (2000) excerpt and text search; Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (Indiana UP, 1989) online; Malka, Susan Gelfand.
Advance of American Nursing (3rd ed 1995) ; 4th ed 2003 is titled, American Nursing: A History; Kaufman, Martin, et al. Dictionary of American Nursing Biography (1988) 196 short biographies by scholars, with further reading for each; Reverby, Susan M. Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850–1945 (1987) excerpt and text search
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 ...
Loretta Cecelia Ford (née Pfingstel; [1] December 28, 1920 – January 22, 2025) was an American nurse and the co-founder of the first nurse practitioner program. Along with pediatrician Henry Silver, Ford started the pediatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1965.
The history of nursing education had a long and varied role in the United States. Before the late 1800s little formal education was available to train nursing students. Education was primarily based on an apprenticeship with a senior nurse who taught bedside care within a hospital or clinic setting. Over time this model changed dramatically.
The Cornell University School of Nursing was a nursing school in New York City founded in 1877 as the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses; it closed in 1979. [1] The school awarded a Bachelor of Nursing degree after five years of study, two in an undergraduate college and three at the Medical Center. It was one of the few institutions ...
The theory of human caring, first developed by Watson in 1979, is patient care that involves a more holistic treatment for patients. As opposed to just using science to care for and heal patients, at the center of the theory of human caring is the idea that being more attentive and conscious during patient interactions allows for more effective and continuous care with a deeper personal ...