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  1. tnbutterfly - Mary

    Nursing: Then and Now

    Looking back to when I was in nursing school, and then starting my nursing career, I remember many things that are no longer in use, or things that have transformed over the years. Gone are the days of paper chart, replaced with electronic medical re...
  2. As part of our pinning ceremonies in nursing school, we all probably remember reciting the Nightingale Pledge, a modified "Hippocratic Oath" composed in 1893 by Mrs. Lystra E. Gretter and a Committee for the Farrand Training School for Nurses, Detroi...
  3. Personally, I feel like it could use an update. I feel like its outdated and perhaps out of touch, and it diminishes the critical thinking and professionalism that one needs to be an excellent nurse, instead focusing on nurses promising to be go...
  4. Nursing Shortages Past and Present

    Nursing shortages are almost as old as nursing itself. If we look back to the beginning of modern nursing over one hundred and fifty years ago, we find varying technological and economical reasons that the demand for nurses has often been higher than...
  5. What does Sue Barton, Penny Marsh and Cherry Ames have in common? They were all courageous nursing or student nurses’ characters in novel series, popular from the 30s to 70s. The books were written to motivate teens and young adults to choose a car...
  6. Florence Nightingale is famous for her pioneering nursing education, her development of statistical analysis and her improvements on methods of care delivery. She is also famous because she was "the woman with the lamp," a caring nurse who walked aro...