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Cover of the book The Women next to a photo of the authorNursing Book ClubThe Women by Kristin HannahA historical novel about American nurses serving during the Vietnam WarThe title of Kristin Hannah’s latest historical fiction novel, The Women, refers to the roughly 7,000 U.S. military nurses who served on active duty during the Vietnam War. The story...
Illustration of knights hospitaller from the Crusades eraFeatureA Brotherhood of CareThe legacy of men in nursingFrom Crusades-era monks to modern-day CRNAs, men in nursing represent an honorable tradition going back more than a thousand years. Knights Hospitaller and the Patron Saint of Nursing The...
Engraving of Rene Laennec over Littmann stethscope.FeatureThe StethoscopeThe origins and evolution of this humble but essential diagnostic tool.A FEW YEARS AGO, a familiar piece of medical equipment quietly celebrated its 200th birthday: the humble stethoscope. This is the story of the origins and evolution of this important tool....
The author, a nurse, stands in front of Lea Hurst, Nightingale's family home in EnglandFeatureIn Florence’s FootstepsFrom London landmarks to her family's country home“IT BREAKS MY HEART TO LEAVE LEA HURST.” — Florence Nightingale After listening to a talk by two nurses who had visited spots in England related to Florence Nightingale —...
Black & white photograph of 4,000 uniformed nurses marching in the 1954 Chicago Nurses Day Parade.FeatureNurses Day and Nurses WeekSome historical highlights from 75 years of celebrationsNATIONAL NURSES WEEK has been an annual tradition for longer than many current nurses have been practicing, but it’s only the latest in a long line of nursing- related observances. Here are...

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Two old photos of novelist and chief nurse Nella LarsenProfiles In NursingNella Larsen Imes (1891–1964)Nurse administrator and novelist of the Harlem RenaissanceNow considered one of the finest authors of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen Imes was also a public health nurse and a respected nurse administrator in New York City. The 1918 Flu...
Pink-and-orange cover of the book Taking Care next to photo of the author Sarah DiGregorio, wearing a black blouse and a big smile.Nursing Book ClubTaking Care By Sarah DiGregorioThe Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our WorldFreelance journalist Sarah DiGregorio is not a nurse, but she has had intimate exposure to nursing through the death of her mother, her own emergency surgery, and the premature birth of her...
Florence Nightingale in the barrack hospital at Scutari, Turkey, during the Crimean War.FeatureNightingale in CrimeaHow a fiery newspaper article took Florence Nightingale into the Crimean War and sparked her crusade for hospital reformOn the morning that her life would change, Florence Nightingale sat down to her preferred breakfast of tea and kedgeree (a curry of rice, boiled egg, and smoked halibut) and opened The Times...
Oil painting of Isabel Hampton Robb, first ANA presidentProfiles In NursingIsabel Hampton Robb (1859–1910), Founding President of the ANAShe brought rigor and standards to nursing educationThe first president of what is now the American Nurses Association (ANA), Isabel Adams Hampton Robb was also an important innovator in American nursing education. She spearheaded a movement...
Nurses and a nun from TV show Call the Midwife care for a woman in labor.FeatureThe Many Lessons of “Call the Midwife”The popular BBC series, set in mid-century London, continues to instruct and inspire modern nursesFirst aired in 2012, “Call the Midwife” is a BBC period drama, shown in the U.S. on PBS, that follows groups of newly qualified nurse midwives living at Nonnatus House, an Anglican...