Civil War Nursing Following the Battle of Gettysburg CIVIL WAR NURSING: PART TWO by Jane Early, BSN, RN Most historians credit the battle of Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania as changing the War between the North and the South to favor the North. The cost in human suffering was unimaginable – 57,225 casualties were identified […]
Civil War Nursing History
September 3, 2013
Nursing During the Civil War as Described by Roberta West in Her Book “History of Nursing in Pennsylvania” published by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association in c1930 By Jane Early, BSN, RN The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 found little differences in the care of the sick and wounded than during the Revolutionary […]
The Founding of The Museum of Nursing History
August 31, 2013
By: Sandra Kress Davis, EdD, RN, President of the Museum of Nursing History The Museum of Nursing History evolved from a one-day celebration of nurses at the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia on May 10, 1974, into a Bicentennial Nursing Project in 1976. A group of prominent nurses and friends of nursing […]
Museum of Nursing History artifact collection visits the Cherry Hill Mall
August 24, 2013
In May 2010, the Cherry Hill Mall, located at 2000 NJ-38 Cherry Hill, NJ, took part in honoring the history and memorabilia of nursing history. Thanks to the Museum of Nursing History‘s extensive collection of nursing uniforms through different eras, the exhibition took center stage, detailing the many styles of medicine. Although the exhibition is […]
