History Websites

Fosters the importance of history in guiding the future of nursing. Membership and conference information, online gift shop, and nursing history calendar. Also provides photographs of the graves of historically significant nurses with short biographies.

Excerpt from "Ambulance Work and Nursing" provides an enlightening look at the nursing environment of the day.

Online slides, from the Concepts of Nursing Course given at Montgomery County Community College. The topic, "Duties of the Floor Nurse 1887", makes for interesting reading.

"The Life of a Late Nineteenth Century Young Nurse". A story by former nurse Mary Roberts Rinehart, of what awaited new nursing recruits in 1893.

Some very unique historic art and postcards of Nursing, medical, and healthcare.

Describes nursing conditions and influences during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Letters from France from 1914 written by a Canadian nurse. Several pictures depicting scenes during the war are featured on the site.

The story of Helen Fairchild, RN, a nurse in Flanders during the Battle of Passchendaele 1917. Written by Mrs Fairchild Rote, her niece.

Established in 1991 at the University of Virginia for the preservation of the history of Nursing. Online photographs and a highlighted collection.

A collection of net links on nursing history and notable nurses, from About.com.

A collection of photographs and documents from nursing schools, pertaining to the history of nursing education in Nova Scotia, Canada.