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

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

2. Live, as if you were to die tomorrow, Study, as if you were to live forever. (I. Ghandi)

3. 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.

4. 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:

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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."

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Two hundred years later St. Benedict founded the Benedictine nursing order.

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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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