It was during the Crimean War that a significant
development in nursing history arose when English nurse Florence Nightingale,
laid the foundations of professional
nursing with the principle summarized in the book notes on nursing.
Other important nurses in the development of the
profession include: Mary seacole, who
also worked as a nurse during the Crimean war;
Agnes Elizabeth Jones and Linda
Richards, who established quality
nursing schools in the USA and Japan, and Linda
Richards who was
officially America’s
first professionally trained nurse, graduating in 1873
from the New England Hospital for
women and children in Boston.
New Zealand was
the first country to regulate nursing practice nationally, with adoption
of the nurses registration Act on the
12 September 1901. it was here in New Zealand that Ellen
Dougherty became the first registered nurse. North Carolina was
the first state in the united states to pass a nursing license law in 1903 and in 1990s nursing became able to prescribe medications. Order
diagnostic and pathology tests and refer patients to the other health
professionals as needed, Potter and Perrys
(2009).
Nurse in the united state army actually started during
the revolutionary war when they generally suggested to George Washington that
the needed female nurses “to attend the sick and obey the matrons orders. In
July 1775 a plan was submitted to the
second continental congress that
provided one nurse for every ten patients and provided that
a matron be allotted to every
hundred sick or wounded”
Nurses have experienced difficulty with the hierarchy
in medicine that has resulted in an
impression that nurses ‘ primary purpose is to follow the direction of
physicians. This tendency is certainly not observed on Nightingale’s notes on nursing when the particularly
relating to bedside manner. The modern
era has seen the development of nursing digress and nursing has numerous
journals to broaden the knowledge based
of the profession. Nurses are often in
key management roles within health
services and hold research posts at universities .