History of Professional Nurisng
Chapter 1 Personal Nursing Comes of Age 1859-2000 Chapter One introduces the development of nursing from 1859 through 2000. Florence Nightingale served in the Crimean War and later founded the first training school for nurses. During the Civil War, both the North and South had strong women working as nurses. They helped to reform the filthy military hospitals and in turn reform civilian hospitals. In the years after the Civil War the professionalism and feminism of nursing began to take hold. The National League of Nursing Education later called the National League of Nursing was established in 1912. State licensure in 1903 created standardization for nursing education. The Henry Street Settlement helped expand the nursing profession to African Americans. During WWI and WWII the importance of nursing in military hospitals was again recognized. In WWII the Cadet Nurse Corps created even more opportunities for military nurses. Today technology and social changes have made nursing an opportune profession. I believe professional nursing has gone through many changes over its lifetime. From being a profession not highly respected, today nurses are given tasks that used to be handled by physicians.