Never regard study as a duty, but as an enviable opportunity to learn.

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• Never regard study as a duty, but as an enviable
  opportunity to learn.
• (A. Einstein)

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Live, as if you were to die tomorrow, Study, as
if you were to live forever. (I. Ghandi)
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Nursing History History provides current nurses
with the same intellectual and political tools
that determined nursing pioneers applied to
shape nursing values and beliefs to the social
context of their times. Nursing history is not
an ornament to be displayed on anniversary days,
nor does it consist of only happy stories to be
recalled and retold on special occasions.
Nursing history is a vivid testimony, meant to
incite, instruct and inspire today's nurses as
they bravely trod the winding path of a
reinvented health care system.
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About AAHN The American Association for the
History of Nursing (AAHN ) is a professional
organization open to everyone interested in the
history of nursing. Originally founded in 1978
as a historical methodology group, the
association was briefly named the International
History of Nursing Society. The purpose of the
Association shall be to foster the importance of
history as relevant to understanding the past,
defining the present, and influencing the future
of nursing by
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• Stimulating national and international interest
  and collaboration in
• the history of nursing
• Educating nurses and the public regarding the
  history and heritage
• of the nursing profession
• Encouraging and supporting research in the
  history of nursing and
• recognizing outstanding scholarly achievement
  in nursing history
• Encouraging the collection, preservation, and use
  of materials of historical
• importance to nursing
• Serving as a resource for information about
  nursing history
• Producing and distributing educational materials
  related to the history
• and heritage of the nursing profession
• Promoting the inclusion of nursing history in
  nursing curricula
• Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in
  history.

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History of Nursing Organizations
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
American College of Nurse Midwives American
College of Nurse Practitioners American Nurses
Association American Red Cross History American
Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)
Association of Critical-Care Nurses (ACCN)
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
(AORN) Association of Women's Health, Obstetric
and Neonatal Nurses (AHONN) Case Managment
Society of America Emergency Nurses Association
NANDA Internationa North American Nursing
Diagnosis Associationl National League for
Nursing History Finding aid to the records of
NLN National Association of Colored Graduate
Nurses National Black Nurses Association
Society of Urologic Nurses Wound, Ostomy and
Continence Nurses Society
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Since the earliest times, men and women have been
engaged in the practices we today call nursing.
These individuals combined biological,
nutritional, social, aesthetic, and spiritual
support to optimize the health of their
communities. While they have been called
medicine men or witch doctors, these terms
indicate a lack of their contribution, and that
the healer may have been either gender. If we
examine the practices they are very similar to
what we know today as community health nursing.
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• The first nursing school in the world was started
  in India in about 250 BC. Only men were
  considered pure enough to become nurses.
• The Charaka (Vol I, Section xv) states these men
  should be, "of good behavior, distinguished for
  purity, possessed of cleverness and skill, imbued
  with kindness, skilled in every service a patient
  may require, competent to cook food, skilled in
  bathing and washing the patient, rubbing and
  massaging the limbs, lifting and assisting him to
  walk about, well skilled in making and cleansing
  of beds, readying the patient and skillful in
  waiting upon one that is ailing and never
  unwilling to do anything that may be ordered."

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• During the Byzantine Empire nursing was a
  separate occupation practiced primarily by men.
  In the New Testament, the good Samaritan paid the
  innkeeper to provide care for an injured man. No
  one thought it odd that a man should be paid to
  provide nursing care.

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In every plague that swept Europe men risked
their lives to provide nursing care. A group of
men, the Parabolani, in 300 AD started a nursing
care during the Black Plague epidemic.
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• Two hundred years later St. Benedict founded
  the Benedictine nursing order.

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• St. Alexis was a fifth century nurse. The Alexian
  Brothers were organized in the 1300s to provide
  nursing care for the victims of the Black Death.
  This organization today continue in its work.

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• Military, religious and lay orders of men
  continued to provide nursing care throughout the
  Middle Ages. Some of the most famous of these
  were the Knights Hospitalers, the Teutonic
  Knights, the Tertiaries, the Knights of St.
  Lazarus, the Order of the Holy Spirit, and the
  Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony.

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• Two patron saints stem from this period. St. John
  of God and St. Camillus de Lellis bothe started
  out as a soldiers, and later turned to nursing.
  St. Camillus started the sign of the red cross
  which is still used today, and developed the
  first ambulance service.

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Seventy years before the Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock, Fray Juan de Mena was shipwrecked
off the south Texas Coast. He is the first
identified nurse in what was to become the
United States. Since that time the history of
American nursing has begun.
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