PROFESSIONAL NURSING SERVICES history

Despite the fact that deaconesses had all but vanished for a few centuries before then, they were brought back by Theodor Fliedner in 1836 when he opened a deaconess motherhouse situated nearby the Rhine river.

Miss Alice Fisher, born in England June 13, 1839, trained at the Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses.

Florence Nightingale began her illustrious nursing career as a nurse within the Crimean War that took place in the mid 1850’s, tending to injured soldiers on the battlefield.

As for Europe, the nursing profession flourished when, in 1860, Nightingale opened the very first nursing school in London, which was known as the Florence Nightingale School for Nurses.

When the Civil War started in 1861, there were not yet any formally trained nurses or nursing schools in the United States Instead, over 3,000 women served as volunteer nurses to take care of sick and wounded soldiers.

The Women’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which is considered the first permanent nursing school in the United States, was founded in 1872.

In 1876, she volunteered to be superintendent of the Fever Hospital, Newcastle on Tyne, where she found wards dirty and unkempt.

Miss Fisher wrote to Miss Nightingale on November 23, 1877 from Addenbrooke Hospital, at Cambridge.

In 1882, she became superintendent of the General Hospital in Birmingham, remaining to establish a school of nursing.

Rochester Homeopathic Hospital (later named The Genesee Hospital) opened in 1889, and the “Rochester Homeopathic Hospital Training School for Nurses” opened nine weeks later in December 1889.

In 1891, the first class of three nurses graduated.

ANA has come a long way since 1896.

Around the early to late 1900’s, nursing was becoming more important than ever, as nurses were needed on the front lines of the many wars being waged, from the Crimean War to the Civil War.

The group succeeded, and in 1903 North Carolina was the first state to require nurses to graduate from nursing school and register with the a state nursing board.

Adventist University started building its solid foundation for nursing education in 1908 when it began training nurses so healthcare could be provided for more people.

When the organization became the American Nurses Association in 1911, it was already fighting for the profession to gain the respect it deserved.

New York, Virginia and New Jersey legislatures quickly followed suit, and by 1921 all 48 United States required nurses to earn standardized training and licensure.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) desegregated in 1949, one of the first national professional associations to do so.

For instance, more and more schools began to offer additional nursing courses that would lead to licensed and registered nurses, as well as Masters and Doctorate nursing programs in the 1950’s and 70’s respectively.

The National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) formed in 1971 as a parallel organization to the ANA.

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As of 2016, the Unites States employs almost three million nursing professionals.