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- A Journey Through Time - An online scrapbook for University of Virginia Medical and Nursing Alumni.
www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/scrap/cover.html
- AAHN Nursing History 2000 Calendar - A calendar of significant historical events in nursing history.
www.aahn.org/calendar
- About Nurses and Nursing - A collection of net links on nursing history and notable nurses, from About.com.
womenshistory.about.com/cs/nursesandnursing
- American Association for the History of Nursing - 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.
www.aahn.org
- American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses - Historical overview of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit nurses(PACU, formerly known as Recovery Rooms).
www.aspan.org/Historical.htm
- An 1895 Look At Nursing - Excerpt from "Ambulance Work and Nursing" provides an enlightening look at the nursing environment of the day.
enw.org/1895_Nursing.htm
- Bangor Area Visiting Nurses - In 1913, Edith Bicknell was the sole registered nurse of the Bangor Area Visiting Nurses. A short history of this nursing service, which still exists today.
www.emh.org/bavn/mission.htm
- Beyond Bed Pans - "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.
historymatters.gmu.edu/d/60
- Black Nurses in History - Is both an excellent bibliography and guide to online resources.
www4.umdnj.edu/camlbweb/blacknurses.html
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing - Founded in 1987, CAHN promotes interest in the history of nursing and promotes scholarship in the field. Membership and scholarship information, book reviews and news.
www.ualberta.ca/~jhibberd/CAHN_ACHN
- Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry - Established in 1991 at the University of Virginia for the preservation of the history of Nursing. Especially interesting are the online photographs and a highlighted collection.
www.nursing.virginia.edu/centers/history.html
- Center for the Study of Nursing History - Historical scholarship on health care history and nursing in the United States.
www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/default.htm
- Cherry Ames Series - Devoted to the juvenile series about a mystery-solving nurse, written by Helen Wells and Julie Tatham, from 1943 to 1968.
www.netwrx1.net/CherryAmes
- From the Decline/Dark Ages to Rebirth/Renaissance of Nursing - Nursing during the Medieval Ages.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1746/NursingDeclineHistory.htm
- History of African-Americans in White - A nurse educator's research and findings about early African-American nurses.
www.coe.ohio-state.edu/edpl/gordon/courses/863/nurses.html
- History of Frontier Nursing Service - A historical review of Mary Breckinridge's first effort to professionalize midwifery.
www.frontiernursing.org/history_of_fsn.htm
- History of Nurse Anesthesia Practice - Established in the late 1800s. Brief history page of the nurse anesthetists from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
www.aana.com/library/history.asp
- History of Nursing - Biographies and pictures of Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Mrs Bedford-Fenwick from Internurse.
www.internurse.com/history
- History of Nursing at NNC - Information about Northwest Nazarene University nursing department from 1918 to 1998. Archived photographs available for viewing.
www.nnu.edu/academics/schools/nursing/history.htm
- History of Nursing Education at Scott and White - A time span of nursing at the Temple Sanitarium, what would later become the Scott and White Hospital in Texas. Well compiled site.
www.sw.org/archive/tshisty/swnurse.htm
- History of Nursing Slides - 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.
faculty.mc3.edu/rbenfiel/NUR109/NUR109NursingHistory/sld001.htm
- History of Public Health Nursing - A short description of the service which began in the late 1800's by several wealthy women in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Buffalo who hired trained nurses to care for the poor in their homes.
www.health.state.mo.us/Publications/100-20.html
- How Nursing Advanced from the 19th Century - Archived articles on nursing history from the University of Toledo libraries.
www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack9.html
- Men in American Nursing History - From prehistory to the present, an informative review. Includes suggestions for further reading.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6011
- My Aunt, My Hero - The story of Nurse Helen Fairchild, RN a nurse in Flanders during the Battle of Passchendaele 1917. Reprinted by kind permission of the author, Mrs Fairchild Rote, her niece.
raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/medical/MaMh/MyAunt.htm
- My Beloved Poilus - Letters from France from 1914 written by a Canadian nurse. Several pictures depicting scenes during the war are featured on the site.
raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/medical/canadian/cnurse.htm
- National League for Nursing - A timeline of the history of the National League for Nursing, the pioneers in nursing education.
www.nln.org/aboutnln/info-history.htm
- Nurhis-L - An International forum for the discussion of Nursing History. An electronic mailing and discussion list.
www.nursing.uconn.edu/nurhis-l.html
- Nurses Uniforms Past and Present - 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.
dyk2.homestead.com/Index.html
- Nursing Times - Past Times - Articles on the history of nursing, featuring personal accounts of nursing, midwifery and health visiting many years ago.
www.nursingtimes.net/features/supplement.asp?header=past&keyword=paxt
- Significant Events in the History of Nursing - Time line from 1836 to 1993 how nursing evolved.
www4.allencol.edu/~sey0/hist1a.html
- Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps - Provided by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. Includes an introduction, the evolution of the cap, capping ceremony, and demise of the cap. An array of vintage photographs are provided.
www.civilization.ca/hist/infirm/inint01e.html
- The History of Nursing Archives - Personal and professional papers of nursing leaders, public health and professional nursing organizations, histories of various American and foreign schools of nursing, as well as an extensive book collection.
www.bu.edu/speccol/nursing.htm
- The Virtual Nurses' Memorial - Dedicated to nurses who have died in the line of duty.
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/6780
- UBC School of Nursing - A brief history page from the University of British Columbia, one of the oldest schools of nursing in Canada.
www.nursing.ubc.ca/docs/History.html
- United Kingdom Centre for the History of Nursing - A virtual centre dedicated to developing and strengthening links among nurses, scholars and students of the history of nursing. Of interest are the articles from the archives (in Adobe .pdf format).
www.qmuc.ac.uk/hn/history
- Virginia Nursing History - Highlights pertaining to the history of nursing schools, programs and organizations in Virginia from the 1890's to present.
www.library.vcu.edu/tml/speccoll/nursing/index.html
- Voices from the Past: Visions of the Future - Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, history page.
www.ana.org/centenn/centbegn.htm
- Wilcox College of Nursing - University of Connecticut's Archives and Special Collections: Wilcox College of Nursing started in 1908. Includes history of school, a list of graduates, and finding aid. (Almost all personnel and student files were held by the Middlesex Hospital and will be destroyed after the year 2000).
www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/Wilcox/history.htm
- Zwerdling Nursing Archives - Some very unique historic art and postcards of Nursing, medical, and healthcare.
www.deltiology.com/healthcare.main.html
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